Spanish Flu hits Troops!
Spanish Flu strikes Camp Funston, now Fort Riley, Kansas
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Mar 4 2019
Mar 4 2019
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The 1918 influenza pandemic was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic. The first known case of what will later be called Spanish Flu: Private Albert Gitchell at Camp Funston, Fort Riley, Kansas on March 4, 1918.
The illness resulted in the deaths of 50 to 100 million (three to five percent of the world's population), making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history. It is estimated, influenza caused about one third of total military deaths for all belligerents.
Still studied and debated today, the 1918 influenza pandemic led to advances in military health care, disease prevention, and medicine.
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