Dee Andrews

In winter of 1918, Dr. Lorne Miller ponders the season’s influenza. A young farm boy had knocked on his office door, his parents dying. And then two more young men unexpectedly died. Boys their age were dying in the mud on the western front of the Great War, not on the plains of Kansas. Confounded by unusual symptoms and rapid deaths, Lorne makes a decision he will regret the rest of his life. Alternately narrated by Lorne, seeking redemption and a vaccine, and his daughter Helen, who joins the army as a nurse, father and daughter rely on inner strength, innovation, and purpose to persevere in the midst of war and disease.

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Spanish Flu Spread by Soldiers Training at Camp Funston

1918 Influenza Pandemic· Kansas· The Great War

21 Feb

Not that anyone called it the Spanish Flu then. When influenza first struck soldiers training for World War 1 —in early March of 1918 at Camp Funston in Kansas—army medical staff didn’t concern themselves. Contagious diseases such as influenza attacked often with so many people crowded in mess halls and barracks. Better to let them share it and get it…
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Haskell County Kansas | Origin of 1918 Influenza Outbreak

1918 Influenza Pandemic· Kansas

30 Jan

Haskell County, Kansas is a place of plowed up prairie, violent storms, and stunning sunsets. Scientists hypothesize this remote, isolated place is where the 1918 influenza outbreak began. This sparsely populated corner of southwest Kansas experienced a boom in the 1880s. Farmers and ranchers arrived eager to claim the 160 acres promised by the Homestead Act. Settlers raised cattle, hogs,…
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Historical Fiction Confronts 1918 Influenza Pandemic

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An Historical Fiction Novel about the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

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