Influenza

In 1918, American was described as a “vigorous and young nation”. When spring came around, large amounts of manure was burned at Fort Wily in Kansas. The sun had turned black and from that day on, things wouldn’t be the same for a while. An epidemic was created and spread throughout the world, World War I indeed the culprit on doing so.
On March 11, a member of the army had developed a simple sore throat and a headache, in just a few hours; there were one hundred cases of it. Suspicion grew strongly and the sickness of the men was known as pneumonia. The result, forty-eight had died. One/half a million had crossed the Atlanta and brought over the sickness from Kansas. It was known as the “relentless killer’ and had made people turn black and blue and even made them feeling as they had been hit with a 2X4. Just breath...