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- Title
A 1918 Influenza Outbreak at Haskell Institute: An Early Narrative of the Great Pandemic.
- Authors
Grant, Peter
- Abstract
The article discusses the history of an influenza outbreak at Haskell Institute, a nonreservation American Indian boarding school near Lawrence, Kansas in 1918. On March 17, twenty students appeared at the school hospital and showed the usual symptoms of grip or influenza, according to an on-site doctor. The grip that arrived at Haskell was extremely virulent and could suddenly become life-threatening when followed by pneumonia or another respiratory pathogen.
- Subjects
INFLUENZA pandemic, 1918-1919; HASKELL Institute; INFLUENZA; MICROBIAL virulence; KANSAS state history; PNEUMONIA
- Publication
Kansas History, 2020, Vol 43, Issue 2, p56
- ISSN
0149-9114
- Publication type
Article