Jose “Pepe” Castro Duenas was a deputy registrar of land, deeds and titles on Guam. Although not part of his job, during the late 1918 and early 1919 influenza epidemic on Guam where nearly 1,000 people succumbed to death from the virus, he ended up being one of the people being responsible for tallying the number of dead because everyone else was either sick or died.
Don Jose Castro Duenas & the 1918/1919 Great Flu Epidemic
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- Written by: Bernard Punzalan