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JAN, 12, 199 Mysterious, Deadly Flu of 1918 Killed 21 Million back tn lowa City in an ellort to intect laboratery animals But the virus could not be recovered, thus blocking etforts te late and identity it and pobly pre vent ahotlier visitation By CHARLES S. TAYLOR governasent Secretary of War Newton D. Haker stopped the low of drattees to Army camps and canceled a call for 1H2000 nen to report because the camp honpitais ere aled to overtlowing with a patien The productinn of cual and steel were threatened and absenteeism ran high amung key governiment person- nel in Washington. was the US. Peblic Health Hnpital in Chicag ungi l victini uld wh rausng dea ATLANTA (UPI armss the world was 21 milliun, and Armerica tisted ita dead at SRAS2 The death toll We were swanped with ldiers sall- O. Stariner, and Cagoardanmen Wil- ams said They would just eoliapie the streets doTIown and were brought nut to un I had three wards that were under my charge. There wancar iteme citirs i ago police uete d ard th New York City counted ESI dearths in a aingle day. Chicago did not have enough hearaes, and bodies stacked up in the arids neceisn Mng snersig 1 puhlie COULD the Spanish ilu relurn, and kil new millaons CONGRESS clesed paleries in e Senate and :lone evcept for ibe prei Washingtan, Dc adopted a new tode forbidding perons ta expose" them selves la intluenua. It ala made it ula ful for a patlent is appear ii publie, and lines ranged from S3 opward Although much more now 1s known about the lu, even to the identification of the A and B strains, medical scientists say it is possible that a pandemie might recur and take a high toll because the variations of the virus are still not thor- oughly understood. morgues, Th was how the Spanish intluenza atruck, alaying hundreds of thousands of human beings in a few autumn weeks of 191R. while the Alied armies of the First World War were only six weeks from vie- tory in the trenches of Europe There was a Marine ser geant. He was brought in unconicious and in three bours that man was dead. Just like hat It was common koowledge that between 400 and 500 people were dying (in Chi- cago) each day." he said. "More people were dying than could be buried. Finally, the loesome October" ended and with the chming of November, the killer virus brgan to disappear. The drath rate dropped dramatically. Can phor bottles, quinine, rubbing alcohol and otter influenca specials went back inta America's medicine cabinets. The thousands of face masks were gradually discarded. The gramopbones for home parties were cranked up again Projec- tors whirred once more in the motion pic ture huses The mysterious killer - infinitely mere deadly than any of the weapons of war and never identified by medical scien- tists of that day- killed its millions and disappeared. Where it went, no one "It was a fearsnme thing" Entire families wnuld become all. he said, and there would he no cne to care for them. In New York open faced uncezen were subject ta tines and jail sentence The city closed all its libraries. Many cities forbade bar bers te shave their cu Inmers because of the close contact it volved. Since the killer virus of 1918 was never Isolated, it apparently could strike again if the time was ripe and the world would never know that it was once again being astaulted by the greatest plague of mod- en times hortation in soine communities. Ol were "abandon the universal practice shaking hands "take castor ol" "dont ride the subways " Boston had churt less Sundays. Schools, movie bouses, loons were padlocked uaied.oaLJ The deadly Du bug lett America almost qulely as it came Where i went re malns a medical mystery The Spanisth tlu virus was never seen under nieroscopes ol that day and4 tor this reason scientista do not know how the virus dillers in appearance trom the current Asian lu virus. knows The Spanish influenza struck every coantry in the world, sparing only the island of St. Helena (where in 1821 Na. poleon had died a prisoner) and Mauri- tius Ialand in the Indian Ocean, THE SPANISH FLU, so named be cause it was believed 1o have originated d imported into this couniry by a Coast Grard cutter returring om convoy duty, spread incredibly fast and over vast distances. Coast Guard search ing parties discovered Eskimo villages in remote, inaccessible Alaskan regions wiped out to the last adult and chud. In 1961 a medical team led by Dr AL bert P. McKee et the State University of lowa, journeyed to Alaska. There they exhumed the bodies of several flu vic- But was secondaty inlections, sach as pneumonia, that killed so many in the 1918 fla epidemic. Against these inlec- tions the world now has a powertal as- sortment of effective antibioties Pennsylvania was the hardest-hit state with more than one third of a million cases and 10,000 deaths in less than two weeks tims preserved in the icy earth, Lung sectinns were packed in ice and sent India's death toll was the highest of any nalina, 12.500.000. The Dutch East In- dies was second with B00,000, and the United States was third with 543,452 The continent of North America sullered a death toll of 1,075 GRS, Pocms were written about the ternhie malady that lay over the Jand. One rhyme went: A British Army oflicer who traveled through northem Persta in 1919 brought a report that in village after village there were no survivora State 'Shutdown' Saved Lives Spanish flu took a heavy toll in Wis consin in 1918 and 1919- but the late Dr. Cornelius Harper, Witconsin's pio neering state health officer who was in office then, always beljeved decisive ac- tion by his oflice saved thoasands of lives County with 59 Still - Dr. Harper told a Wisconsin State Journal reporter 30 years latar - it might have been much worse. During the epidemie, which be always deseribed as "a plagut," he shat down every school, theater, church, and publie place in the cntire state. It was not a popular decislon. No other stae took such a precaution. "I had a little bird "Its name was Enza Dr. Halph Chester Williams, a former Assistant U.S. Surgeon General who now is retired from the active practice of medicine and living in Atlanta, has vivid recollections ci thoue fearful days. The US. death tell was 10 times the 31.513 American lives lost in battle in World War I "I opened the window And an-flu-enza." Like a fighter probing for weak spots, the virus a pparently struck first in America at Canp Funstun. Ft. Riley Kans, la March of 1918. Through the spring and summer it did little dainage. But when autuna came it relurned as a killer, It ravaged Aimy camps, cities, Another ditty relerred to the near-un versal law ordering the wearing of face masks as protection against picking tp the flu virus. here. HE WAS a doctor with the U S Public Health Service in the autumn el 1918, Be- cause of the war there was a great short age of doctort and nurser througaout the "Obey the laws And wear the gauze Protect your jaws Records in the health division show that 7.005 people died in Wisconsin of flu It 1910 und 2.230 in 1919. Dane county. with 323 deaths in 1910, auffered the ninth heaviest toll In the state, 41 people dead The score -as Harper always remem- bered it: the average death toll in the CONDITY as a whole: 201 per 100.000; ha

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