Spanish Flu, and Asiatic Clams

The Spanish Flue Epidemic of 1918 was a widespread and deadly influenza pandemic that spread across the world and affected many people. What was different from other epidemics is that the flu affected people who were young adults, and not the typical infants and elderly that most epidemics would affect for most epidemics in history. The pandemic lasted from 1/1918 to 12/1920. The Flu reached the far corners of the world. Even to some parts of the Artic and even to remote Pacific Islands. This is a video that shows the horrors of the Influenza panic. 

Here is a map that shows where the Spanish Flue started from and moved to. Many people have different theories on to where the virus began, some say the far east, and multiple sources have said  different things so it could be many different locations. One being the Far East, and others say that it could be Africa. 


For the other lab that we went on was to see the Asiatic Clams in the Ocmulgee River. The following video is one that shows how these clams can filter the water in these fresh water systems. As a group we did not find many clams that were alive, but the few that we did were quite interesting to see. According to an article in Wikipedia the Chinise call these clams the gold luck clams. The scientific name for these clams is Corbicula fluminea. This clam is one that we could have found in the Ocmulgee.