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  2. Spanish flu - Wikipedia

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    The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus.

  3. Camp Funston - Wikipedia

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    Soldiers ill with Spanish influenza at a hospital ward at Camp Funston, Kansas, when the epidemic began in 1918. Camp Funston is a U.S. Army training camp located on the grounds of Fort Riley, southwest of Manhattan, Kansas. The camp was named for Brigadier General Frederick Funston (1865–1917).

  4. Haskell County, Kansas - Wikipedia

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    Historian John M. Barry concluded that Haskell County was the location of the first outbreak of the 1918 flu pandemic (nicknamed "Spanish flu"), which killed between 21 and 100 million people. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Loring Miner, a Haskell County doctor, warned the editors of Public Health Reports of the U.S. Public Health Service about the new and more ...

  5. Photos show how San Francisco emerged from a lockdown too ...

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    San Francisco received national praise for its early, proactive response to the Spanish flu pandemic in the fall of 1918. As another pandemic grips the city a century later, San Francisco's past ...

  6. Spanish flu research - Wikipedia

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    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as Dr. Terrence Tumpey examines a reconstructed version of the 1918 flu. In 1995, Jeffery Taubenberger of the US Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP), wondered if it might be possible to recover the virus of 1918 flu pandemic from the dried and fixed tissue of victims. He and his colleagues ...

  7. 1918 in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1918 flu pandemic. July 9 – Great Train Wreck of 1918: In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express, killing 101 and injuring 171. It is considered the worst rail accident in U.S. history. August – A deadly second wave of the Spanish flu starts in France, Sierra Leone and the United States. [1]

  8. 1918 flu pandemic in India - Wikipedia

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    1918 flu pandemic in India was the outbreak of an unusually deadly influenza pandemic in British India between 1918 and 1920 as a part of the worldwide Spanish flu pandemic. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Also referred to as the Bombay Influenza or the Bombay Fever in India, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] the pandemic is believed to have killed up to 17–18 million people in the ...

  9. Seasonal H1N1 virus ‘may have descended from Spanish flu strain’

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    The findings are based on the analysis of samples collected in Europe during the 1918 pandemic. Seasonal H1N1 virus ‘may have descended from Spanish flu strain’ Skip to main content