The 1918 flu also was a bird flu ... which killed about 600,000 Americans and millions worldwide, originated in Kansas. It isn’t clear how many people died in Lawrence because of the flu.

When young, healthy soldiers began getting sick by the dozens in March, 1918, military physicians were baffled by what might be causing it. Courtesy: NARA At Fort Riley, Kansas, an Army private ...

Most of the patients are influenza cases from incoming convoys.1918. Courtesy; Library of Congress Fort Riley, Kansas was a sprawling establishment housing 26,000 men and encompassing an entire ...

The first official cases of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic were recorded at the U.S. Army’s Camp Funston, Kansas, where this emergency influenza ward held treated patients. Several closely ...

The Jordan Independent’s earliest mentions of the 1918 influenza pandemic, which within the following four months would kill thousands of people in Minnesota and millions worldwide, urged ...

There is a cemetery in a small railroad town in northern Ohio where I grew up that tells a sliver of the story of the great ‘Spanish’ influenza pandemic of 1918. One section of the cemetery is ...