1943-11: (The Terrible Depression That Characterizes the Disease — In Her Description of the Influenza Symptoms Jeanne Referencing the Mental Health Impact o…

1943-11: (The Terrible Depression That Characterizes the Disease — In Her Description of the Influenza Symptoms Jeanne Referencing the Mental Health Impact of the Virus Accounting for the “Terrible Depression That Characterizes the Disease,” This Symptom Gaining Less Media Attention but Having a Curious Intersection with the Second Phenomenon Noted in Jeanne’s Letters — Women’s Suicide and Infanticide): In her description of the influenza symptoms, Jeanne referenced the mental health impact of the virus, accounting for the terrible depression that characterizes the disease. This symptom gained less media attention, but it had a curious intersection with the second phenomenon of the period noted in Jeanne’s letters — women’s suicide and infanticide. The linkage between pandemic depression and women’s deaths opened a window onto the gendered experience of epidemic illness that the medical establishment was not equipped or inclined to see.