The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 by Paul Kupperberg (Great Historic Disasters)
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Overview: Even by 1918, when Dr. Loring Miner, a recent graduate of Ohio University, saw the first cases of influenza in Haskell County, Kansas, the treatment of disease was still in its infancy. Doctors could diagnose an illness and try to make their patients comfortable, but there were precious few medications, including aspirin and morphine, to alleviate symptoms and fewer to actually cure diseases. So, when case after case of an unusually intense and rapidly progressing influenza struck, swiftly killing dozens of formerly strong and healthy patients, there was little this country doctor, though a progressive man of science, could do except study the killer. So, in early September 1918, the first cases of influenza (which, because it was first recognized and reported in Spain, became known as the Spanish flu) were being seen at Camp Devens, near Boston.
Dr. Miner had sounded the first warnings. But before the deadly disease could run its course in 1919, more American soldiers would die from the flu than in combat, more than one-fifth of the world’s population would be infected, and as many as 100 million people worldwide would die from the disease that caused the most devastating pandemic in history.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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