In the early 1900’s the Spanish flu killed millions of people. In the United States the number was around three quarters of a million people. Between ten and twenty percent of the Americans who contracted the disease died.  Seventh-day Adventist students living at the Norwegian Adventist seminary just west of Minneapolis in 1918 were not immune to the virus. Ninety of the one hundred twenty students and faculty members living in one building came down with the Spanish flu.