American Experience: Influenza 1918

It began in the spring of 1918 with an army private reporting to a military hospital and being diagnosed with the flu, a disease little understood by doctors. Before the year's end, the deadly disease would ravage America leaving 675,000 corpses in its wake. American Experience: Influenza 1918 is the story of the worst epidemic the United States has ever known. In 1918, America was at war and returning soldiers brought the flu back home. Within months, the disease spread from soldiers to ci...