Downloaded from US National Library of Medicine. Barry, Journal of Translational Medicine, 2:3, 2004.
* “The site of origin of the 1918 influenza pandemic and its public health implications” by John M. As Barry put it in a scholarly article, “It remains the first recorded instance suggesting that a new virus was adapting, violently, to man.”* The Great Influenza was the first study of the pandemic to attach global significance to the alert. Barry (Viking-Penguin, 2004 Penguin Books, 2005). * The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. health authorities did not require reporting of influenza cases. It was certainly the first medical alert of influenza in the U.S.A.
An influenza alert headed “Kansas-Haskell” memorialized eighteen cases and three deaths from influenza “of the severe type.” That notice was likely, the author speculated, the first mention anywhere of a disease that was about to ravage humanity. government’s weekly Public Health Reports of April 5, 1918. Barry’s The Great Influenza in 2004.* The book, a popular general history of the 1918 pandemic, attached historical significance to an alert in the U.S. The case for an American origin of Spanish Influenza gained prominence with the publication of John M.
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