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The 1918 flu epidemic slowly ends

I finished last week’s column by stating that the 1918 flu pandemic had reached Kossuth County around the first of October and that the illnesses and deaths had begun to mount.
On Oct. 10, the local health board instituted a countywide quarantine that shut down all schools, churches, lodges and public gatherings in the hopes of slowing the pandemic down. But, the numbers continued to grow, and cases in the area multiplied rapidly. Many showed little signs of the illness while others went quickly from showing mild symptoms to becoming extremely ill, many dying within three to four days after falling sick.
Read this commentary in the May 28 Kossuth County Advance.

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