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Modern epidemiologists have suggested the 1918 influenza pandemic may have started in Kansas, where flu hospitals like this one at Fort Riley had to be set up early on. The virus is thought to have then circulated among military populations to spread worldwide.
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The hidden killer during wartime, disease often spreads rapidly among confined soldiers who may not have the ideal nutrients to keep them resistant. This hospital was in Aix-les-Bains, France, in 1918.
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Camp Sherman, in Chillicothe, Ohio, was one of the worst-hit communities, suffering 1,200 deaths in just a couple months.
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Troops at Camp Sherman assembled, 21,000 strong, on Sept. 5, 1918, to create this image of President Woodrow Wilson. Within two months, 1,200 of these young men would be dead from the influenza pandemic.
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Eloise (second from right, with the bow in her hair) Shipley was 11-years-old and living on a farm outside of Fredericktown during the flu outbreak, which never reached their farm. Many years later, under her married name Eloise Shipley Hagan, she wrote about it in her memoir My First 100 Years.
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