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1918
March
04
First flu cases at Camp Funston
On 4 March 1918 a cook, Albert Gitchell, fell ill with flu at Camp Funston in Kansas. Within three weeks more than 1,100 soldiers had been hospitalised.
May
22
Flu in Spain
On 22 May 1918 the Madrid press reported a mysterious illness among garrison soldiers. Neutral Spain wrote openly about the epidemic and gave it its name.
August
27
Second wave of the Spanish flu
On 27 August 1918 the first sailors fell ill in Boston. Almost simultaneously the second and deadliest wave of the Spanish flu broke out in Brest and Freetown.
October
24
Spanish flu in the Polish lands
On 24 October 1918 it was decided to close Kraków's schools because of the Spanish flu and a lack of coal. The epidemic raged in Galicia, the Kingdom and Posen.
31
Death of Egon Schiele
On 31 October 1918 the painter Egon Schiele died of the Spanish flu in Vienna, three days after his wife Edith, who was six months pregnant. He was 28.
November
09
Death of Guillaume Apollinaire
On 9 November 1918 the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, son of the Pole Angelika Kostrowicka, weakened by a war head wound, died of Spanish flu in Paris. He was 38.