Influenza Epidemic
"100 Sailors at Great Lakes Die of Influenza"
Newspaper article
By: Chicago Tribune
Date: September 23, 1918
Source: "100 Sailors at Great Lakes Die of Influenza." Chicago Tribune, September 23, 1918, 1.
"Find Influenza Germ"
Newspaper article
By: Washington Post
Date: September 21, 1918
Source: "Find Influenza Germ." Washington Post, September 21, 1918.
Introduction
The word plague conjures up horrific images of centuries past when deadly diseases ravaged entire continents. The mid-fourteenth-century bubonic plague ("black death"), when 25 percent of Europe's population was killed, is the most famous example. Thankfully, over the past several centuries, advances in medicine, public health, and personal hygiene have diminished, if not altogether eliminated, most...
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