ENV S 3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Camp Funston, Fort Devens, Silk Road
INFLUENZA
● The reason that this is called the Spanish Flu is because for reasons unknown
the death rate was highest than anywhere in the world
● Questionable origins:
○ Half the world was engaged in warfare-food production, health care,
sanitation, clean water was not kept----war time conditions present in
this time period
● Another issue: so many people moving so fast to other places because of
mobilization of war
○ People were moving along the trade and silk routes along Europe
● Alfred Crosby-America's Forgotten Pandemic
○ Pandemic-affects the whole world
● Patient zero-Albert Mitchell was a cook at Camp Funston, KS
○ Reported to the infirmary with flu like symptoms
○ 10-12 hours later, another 50 guys came with similar symptoms
○ Multiplied quickly, within one week 48 men had already died after the
first report---severe case of the flu
● The first wave of the virus swept through the army camps then to the general
public-global pandemic fueled by wartime conditions
● The second wave (summer 1918-fall 1918): this mutation was even more deadly;
talks about his particular covering of the flu wave;
● Same spread of the disease happened at Camp Devens
● Third Wave hit as the armistice was being signed in November 1918
● Epidemic that had never really been unprecedented in any way
● US Public Health-established in 1912 to deal the such as problem but completely
inadequate
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Document Summary
The reason that this is called the spanish flu is because for reasons unknown the death rate was highest than anywhere in the world. Half the world was engaged in warfare-food production, health care, sanitation, clean water was not kept----war time conditions present in this time period. Another issue: so many people moving so fast to other places because of mobilization of war. People were moving along the trade and silk routes along europe. Patient zero-albert mitchell was a cook at camp funston, ks. Reported to the infirmary with flu like symptoms. 10-12 hours later, another 50 guys came with similar symptoms. Multiplied quickly, within one week 48 men had already died after the first report---severe case of the flu. The first wave of the virus swept through the army camps then to the general public-global pandemic fueled by wartime conditions.
