Why The Press Downplayed the 1918 Flu

Camp Funston, at Fort Riley, Kansas, during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.
( Armed Forces Institute of Pathology/National Museum of Health and Medicine, distributed via the Associated Press )
( Armed Forces Institute of Pathology/National Museum of Health and Medicine, distributed via the Associated Press )
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