Remembering History: The Great Pandemic - remains the single most deadly pandemic of modern times: an est. 675,000 Americans died - 6 times the # of troops who died on WWl - and its believed to have killed 40 million to 60 million people around the planet. Called the Spanish flu, but it did not originate in Spain. It first struck the U. S. on 3/11/1918 at Ft. Riley in Manhattan, KS. After the 2nd wave of in 1919, it disappeared as quickly and mysteriously as it first emerged.

The Great Pandemic - remains the single most deadly pandemic of modern times: an est. 675,000 Americans died - 6 times the # of troops who died on WWl - and its believed to have killed 40 million to 60 million people around the planet. Called the Spanish flu, but it did not originate in Spain. It first struck the U. S. on 3/11/1918 at Ft. Riley in Manhattan, KS. After the 2nd wave of in 1919, it disappeared as quickly and mysteriously as it first emerged.

The Great Pandemic - remains the single most deadly pandemic of modern times: an est. 675,000 Americans died - 6 times the # of troops who died on WWl - and its believed to have killed 40 million to 60 million people around the planet. Called the Spanish flu, but it did not originate in Spain. It first struck the U. S. on 3/11/1918 at Ft. Riley in Manhattan, KS. After the 2nd wave of in 1919, it disappeared as quickly and mysteriously as it first emerged.