Influenza epidemic

 

 The influenza epidemic of 1918 caused mid-October and premonitory symptoms

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Many appeared to have partial immunity and did not contract the flu; myself and family stayed well, possibly due to having had influenza the winter/fall of 1917 at Fort Harrison

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The author writes of a disease epidemic that submerged in December 1918 and broke out with renewed virulence in the spring of 1919

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The author writes that during the influenza epidemic, there was heavy mortality in the camp

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Tuberculosis infections were common, and mortality at Camp Custer following the "flu" epidemic exceeded one hundred

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Many appeared to have partial immunity and did not contract the flu, possibly due to having influenza the winter/fall of 1917 at Fort Harrison

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The author recorded a visit to the Colter home winter of 1904; Jim & Mrs. Belle Colter, all of Flu or Pneumonia

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Andrew's illness progressively grew worse and was complicated by pneumonia, writes the author, of 1929-30, at length Tropical

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