In the spring of 1918, as the nation mobilized for war, Private Albert Gitchell reported to an army hospital in Kansas. He was diagnosed with the flu, a disease doctors knew little about.

Reparations began in 1974 and continue today. The Spanish flu originated in Kansas in 1918. More than 100 million died in a world with a much smaller population. The coronavirus is not an “Asian ...

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 ...

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 ...

CC Magazine: The Spanish Flu didn’t start in Spain. Why did the Iberian country get stuck with the name? Marc Zimmer: It’s commonly believed that the 1918 pandemic started in Camp Funston, Kansas. The ...

The lethal and highly contagious avian influenza has been detected this year in birds and cattle in Kansas. The disease, also known as "bird flu" and H5N1, has infected only one Kansas flock of ...