The 1918 Flu Surfaces at Camp Funston
Camp Funston, Fort Riley, Kansas, United States
ESTIMATED68% CONFIDENCE4 March 1918 is the first recorded case at Camp Funston, which is the earliest documented outbreak rather than a proven origin - the pandemic's beginning is genuinely disputed.[1]
A camp cook reported sick at Fort Riley's Camp Funston in Kansas, and within days hundreds of soldiers were down with influenza. It is the first recorded outbreak of the pandemic that killed more people than the war it travelled with - somewhere between 25 and 50 million.
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