Albert Gitchell, a cook at the Fort Riley military base in Kansas, reported feeling cold symptoms on March 11, 1918. On the same day, more than a hundred people reported similar complaints, and a year later, tens of millions of people worldwide died from the disease called the Spanish flu, writes Rubicon.hu. The virus was one of the very first specimens of influenza type A, which not only spread extremely quickly, but also had a rapid course, an…
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Albert Gitchell, a cook at the Fort Riley military base in Kansas, reported feeling cold symptoms on March 11, 1918. On the same day, more than a hundred people reported similar complaints, and a year later, tens of millions of people worldwide died from the disease called the Spanish flu, writes Rubicon.hu. The virus was one of the very first specimens of influenza type A, which not only spread extremely quickly, but also had a rapid course, an…