By: Kaylee Jones and Taylor Brauns

World War I

It was 1914, and World War 1 had just started.

As time passed, people on the streets began getting sick.

Three day flu

It all started with the 3 day flu.

Outbreak

This led to the huge outbreak of influenza.

Nurses

Many nurses were hired to help those in need, and many of these nurses also caught the diseases.

Nurses

Nurses were told to wear masks so they couldn’t get infected with influenza.

Soldiers

Soldiers on the streets were also told to wear masks so they could not catch any of the diseases.

Spreading

Influenza spread throughout many of these countries, and many of these countries tried not to claim it had started with them.

Symptoms

People who had influenza experienced symptoms, such as redness of the eye.

Children would sing…

I had a little bird,

It’s name was Enza,

I opened the window,

And in-flu-enza.

People

This is one of the many people in the world that was affected by influenza.

Gas

Many times the cities would have men go out and spray gas to kill the bacteria spreading.

Rats

Rats and many other small animals helped carry the diseases, this being why it spread so fast.

Fleas

Fleas were one of the main spreaders that carried influenza.

Lice

Lice often carried the diseases too. Many people did not know that they were carrying the diseases.

Medical Camp

One of the many medical camps, where influenza carriers were held to prevent from spreading.

Jobs

Many hard jobs were still tried to take care of even if the people around them were sick.

Graph

October and November were the two months hit the hardest with influenza.

Trench Foot

Trench foot was among many of the diseases that was severe. Trench foot often happened in the trenches and it basically rotted feet.

Trenches

In trenches like this one was where they got the disease “trench foot”.

END

By 1918, the end of WWI, influenza killed more people than the Great War, which was about 20 to 40 million people. This is one-fifth of the world’s population.