In early 1918, a virus struck Haskell County,Kansas. It was known as the “Spanish Flu”. The virus spread like wild fire throughout the world. People didn’t take it seriously but it was obviously a big deal.

WWI had just ended and it was early 1918. A virus had struck Kansas and was spreading fast. It was the Spanish Flu. Many people did not take the disease seriously but, it was obviously having a huge affect  on the world. They needed to act fast before the virus wiped out the entire world. When the flu was still spreading three places were having to deal with it at the same time, India, China, and Russia. The virus was called a pandemic because it infected people across many nations.

The influenza killed more than two percent of the world’s population and infected one third of it. The symptoms of the virus were having three days of fever, a runny nose and achy bones. Some people would handle the sickness much differently. They would have a knockout fever, a bloody sputum, and their lungs would fill up with a reddish fluid. The disease was obviously having an effect on the world but people still weren’t taking it seriously. People all over the world had to take many precautions. They had to quarantine the people that had the virus, they had to close off all public areas, and they had to wear gauze masks.

The Spanish Flu lasted nine months and had already killed more people than in WWI. One third of the the world was infected and the only way they stopped it was by quarantining the sick. This virus was one of the biggest disasters the world has ever seen, it wiped out two percent of the world! The influenza affected lots of families and hospitals.     The flu only lasted nine months but if people took the disease more seriously they could have stopped it even earlier.

When the flu started it had many different names and lots of people didn’t take it seriously.  The virus originated and and spread easily and fast having a huge affect on the world. People soon  learned how serious this disease was and and worked together to stop it. They quarantined the sick and stopped the virus from spreading. The Spanish Flu lasted for nine months leaving a mark on the world as one of the biggest disasters the world has ever seen.