STRUCK THE YOUNG AND HEALTHY
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE LIMITED TO FIFTEEN MINUTES
by inciting a
CYTOKINE STORM
(THE IMMUNE SYSTEM ATTACKING ITSELF)
that which caused such symptoms as
so much so that
SWINE FLU MORTICIANS & GRAVEDIGGERS
FATIGUE, FEVER, HEADACHE & INCONTINENCE
from a mutated strain of
BLUE SKIN, BLOODY EARS that lead to
PROJECTILE NOSEBLEEDS
which created shortages of
and in the case of millions,
MILITARY CAMPS IN KANSAS
50 MILLION DEAD
DEATH though it soon turned into
where it was overlooked as a in
leaving approximately
ORIGINS
COMMON COLD
CULTURAL IMPACT which resulted in its is thought to have had an immense
by causing
THE SPANISH
WIDESPREAD PANIC giving it the misnomer of
INFLUENZA
SPREAD
was globally
SPAIN
which led to
by unknowing
namely,
AMERICAN SOLDIERS THE QUARANTINE OF ENTIRE CITIES
NATIONS UNINVOLVED IN THE WAR
occured in
to
EUROPEAN SOLDIERS & CIVILLIANS
1918 This occured everywhere except and
LOW MORALE.
coinciding with
manifesting in
to combat
INCREASING NATIONALISM & GOVERNMENT CONTROL
CENSORSHIP OF NEWS PERTAINING TO THE FLU
WORLD WAR 1
THE THREE WAVES OF THE FLU: March-November 1918
which led to the
1ST WAVE
which was fought mostly in
which was an era of
March 11
April
May
Camp cook at 1, 127 soldiers at military base Fort the base have the Riley, Kansas is flu; 46 have died. quarantined with cold-like symptoms.
FATAL CASES OF INFLUENZA DUE TO COMPLICATIONS
TRENCHES
In the U.S. Navy (1918)
Within the hour others fall ill.
July
French soldiers The first wave of infected, disease the flu appears to spreads across be dying out Europe In the following weeks the flu spreads to Asia and Africa
2ND WAVE
3RD WAVE
August
November
Deadlier mutation strikes soldiers at ports in the United States, France, and Sierra Leone
Armistice day parades and crowds mark the start of a third wave, but the virus does not spread much further
OTHER MENINGITIS
.9%
Source: http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/influenza_secnavpta.htm
.6%
INFLUENZA ALONE
PNEUMONIA (LOBAR)
resulted in many
where
22.4%
17.6%
PNEUMONIA (BRONCHIAL)
BRUTAL CONDITIONS & USE OF MUSTARD GAS
setting the stage for
58.5%
Source: http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/influenza_secnavpta.htm
MASSIVE CONTAMINATION allowed for