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Yeah, Kansas City has Been Down this Road Before.
The Spanish Flu Of 1918 In Kansas City
Posted from kcur.org
Kansas City
Medical
Health
American History
WWI
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Some interesting factoids about the "Spanish" Flu:
1) It had nothing to do with Spain, "Various countries have been assigning the origin of this imposing guest to each other for quite some time, and at one point in time they agreed to assign its origin to the kind and neutral Spain"
2)Much like COVID, it had 4 surge waves 2 in 1918, 1 in 1919 and last in 1920
3) In the US, about 28% of the population of 105 million became infected, and 500,000 to 850,000 died
1) It had nothing to do with Spain, "Various countries have been assigning the origin of this imposing guest to each other for quite some time, and at one point in time they agreed to assign its origin to the kind and neutral Spain"
2)Much like COVID, it had 4 surge waves 2 in 1918, 1 in 1919 and last in 1920
3) In the US, about 28% of the population of 105 million became infected, and 500,000 to 850,000 died
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
PO2 Marco Monsalve First "Identified" here in Ft Riley. Still don't understand why it wasn't called the Kansas Flu.
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PO2 Marco Monsalve
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - You are right on. Believe it or not the French did identify it as the "American Flu" originating in Kansas but backed off in order not to piss off an ally.
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KC and a lot of other places too. Walk through any cemetery around here and you will seen may graves of kids who died from the flu buried in that time period
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