The outbreak of this influenza virus, also known as Spanish flu, spread with astonishing ... One of these was Fort Riley, Kansas, where a new training facility, Camp Funston, was built to house ...

They called it the Spanish flu, and in October 1918 one of the ... say the flu originated in Kansas, at Fort Riley’s Camp Funston. The first reports of soldiers getting sick occurred in March.

Courtesy; Library of Congress Fort Riley, Kansas was ... said to have gone dead black in Kansas that day. Some, looking for a point of origin of the so-called Spanish influenza that would ...