In the winter of 1917-1918, patients with a particularly harsh form of influenza began appearing in the office of Dr. Loring Miner, a physician in Haskell County, Kan. They presented with high fevers, headaches, body aches and coughing. Dozens of healthy people suffered, and some died. Were these cases harbingers of the worldwide pandemic to come?
In August 1917, some 200 miles away, new U.S. Army recruits began pouring into Camp Funston at Fort Riley, Kan., as the United States geared up to