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Watched "American Experience: 1918 Influenza" last night. [View all]
The program didn't claim to say where the flu originated from, but said the first cases cropped up in Kansas, after a massive manure fire that got swept up into a dust storm and enveloped a nearby army base. The first cases came from the soldiers there. From there, it spread to other army bases, went to Europe, came back with returning soldiers, and was even more virulent.
Interesting. I had never heard that before. The stories I'd always heard is that it emerged in the trenches of WWI.
The deadliest month was October of 1918.
Makes me nervous about this coming fall.....
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