This was the early ‘80s. You drove round in a white Rolls Royce? ibid. rozzers to Showers
Crime authorities today warned that Australia is in the grip of an epidemic of the drug Ice. Reggie Yates, Hidden Australia II: Addicted to Ice, Australian news, BBC 2017
America is in the grip of a Crystal Meth epidemic. Drugs Inc s6e4: Super Meth, 2014
Today the US is experiencing an epidemic of Crystal Meth use. Crystal Meth in the UK, 2011
An epidemic of Methamphetamine abuse. Frontline: The Meth Epidemic, PBS 2006
‘People didn’t want to believe that they could be healthy in the morning and dead by nightfall.’ Secret History s6e5: Killer Flu, Channel 4 1998
It was the worst epidemic the world has ever known. It attacked over a billion people, more than half the world’s population. It killed an estimated forty million people. And yet it’s hardly remembered. ibid.
‘All the evidence points to this virus originating in the United States. But of course how can we be sure?’ ibid. Professor John Oxford
An autopsy revealed lungs that were swollen, filled with fluid and strangely blue. ibid.
As it spread through the trenches the virus mutated. ibid.
Folk remedies might have been no more than a comfort but doctors were just as useless. ibid.
People in the very prime of life from 21 to 29 were most vulnerable of all. ibid.
‘The elderly could have experienced the virus already.’ ibid. Professor Oxford
Soldiers were taking the flu with them all around the world. ibid.