History of the United States II / Unit 8 USH2 1109 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Influenza Pandemic
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The idea
The influenza pandemic of nineteen eighteen and nineteen nineteen made more than twenty million Americans ill and killed six hundred seventy-five thousand.
In practice
The Yawp placing an early outbreak at Camp Funston, Kansas, one of the army's largest training camps, in the spring of nineteen eighteen.
Where people slip
Worldwide about five hundred million were infected and an estimated fifty million died, the anchor says.
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