Abstract

In 1918 during the last months of the First World War, Spanish influenza progressed from a relatively mild flu into a deadly, worldwide epidemic - a pandemic.

Keywords:

• Spanish influenza,
• flu,
• pandemic,
• hospital,
• epidemic,
• Kansas State Agricultural College,
• students,
• school,
• bacterium,
• Pfeiffer's bacillus,
• Student Army Training Corps,
• Camp Funston,
• Kansas Health Department,
• Fort Riley,
• doctors,
• sanitary,
• Germany,
• First World War,
• meningitis