This Pandemic Nurse Was Hiding a Dark Secret From Her Patients

When influenza takes over a country, most medical professionals feel a sense of duty to protect and care for infected citizens. They put the health of others before their own to help the country survive. However, not all doctors and nurses are benevolent. Nurse Julia Lyons was hiding an evil secret as she took care of patients who blindly trusted her... 

In Desperate Need of a Job

Julia Lyons was down on her luck during the fall of 1918. She knew hospitals needed nurses during the Spanish Influenza pandemic, and so she enlisted to take a course in medicine. This would be the answer to all her problems...

A Shady Past

Julia breezed through her training... without taking all the required courses. She was just desperate to start her job, and she knew that amid all the panic none of the doctors would take too much notice if she just walked into the hospital and just donned one of the nurse's uniforms. She was right, and she was also hiding a major secret...

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.