The Forgotten Pandemic: The Forgotten Pandemic: A Short History of the 1918-1919 Influenza Outbreak and the Effect on Western State Normal School Katie Jones

Statistics 50 million deaths worldwide 600,000 deaths in the United States 25% of the United States population infected Still kills 36,000 people every year

Statistics

H1N1 Virus “Waves” or Mutations

What are the symptoms? First Wave: violent headaches & body aches, deep coughing, fever Second & Third Waves: Cyanosis Lungs & Heart double in capacity and weight Lungs fill with blood High fever, headaches, difficulty breathing, severe aches and pains Blood flowed from eyes, nose, ears

Where did the flu begin? Haskell County, Kansas

Haskell County, Kansas

Journal of the American Medical Association, Spring 1918

Camp Funston, Kansas Apprx. 300 miles apart

Camp Funston, Kansas

Camp Funston, Kansas

The “Spanish” Influenza Spanish King Alphonse XIII

The Second Wave August – November 1918

Attack on the Young

Kalamazoo Gazette Camp Devens, MA, Sept. 16 Great Lakes, IL, Sept. 18

The ‘Flu’ Reaches Kalamazoo

Sept. 27 Sept. 25 Sept. 30

Sept. 30, Kalamazoo Gazette Oct. 2, Western Herald

Oct. 3

Oct. 10, Western Herald

Elsa Nelson October 17, 1918

Gabriella Payne October 21, 1918

Western Closes October 30, 1918

George Habel and Henry James Perkins October 23, 1918 November 6, 1918

Jessie Richmond Denney Cora Marie Everse George Upfield Ruth Cramer Jessie Richmond Denney Cora Marie Everse January 8, 1919

Deaths United States = 600,000 World Wide = 50 million Western = 8 deaths out of 1,000 students Kalamazoo = 125 deaths (4,064 cases) 2.5 deaths per 1000 people United States = 600,000 World Wide = 50 million