On This Day | Out of the War and into the Petri Dish

The first case of Spanish influenza, known in North Dakota, developed at New Rockford, where a marine, who presumably had not fully recovered from the disease, visited a few days before the original epidemic broke out. The disease became epidemic in less than three weeks, in all parts of the state, and to date approximately seven thousand lives have been lost from its cause in North Dakota.

1918-12-26 | Ward County Independent

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