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Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 by Albert Marrin
Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 by Albert Marrin In spring of 1918, World War I was underway, and troops at Fort Riley, Kansas, found themselves felled by influenza. By the summer of 1918, the second wave struck as a highly contagious and lethal epidemic and within weeks exploded into a pandemic, an illness that travels rapidly […]