Spanish Flu, Part 1: Symptomology and Contagion (References)

according to the US Centers for Disease Control, it killed about 50 million people worldwide: CDC. History of 1918 Flu Pandemic. Archived 29 December 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201229221818/https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-commemoration/1918-pandemic-history

The influenza epidemic of the early 20th century: Lester, Dawn and David Parker. What Really Makes You Ill? Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong. Published by the authors, 2019. p.133f.

According to one 1919 report based on 200 autopsies: LeCount, E.R. The Pathologic Anatomy of Influenzal Bronchopneumonia. Journal of the American Medical Association, 1 March 1919.

There was a letter dated 29 September 1918: American Experience. A Letter From Camp Devens. Archived 27 February 2025. https://web.archive.org/web/20250227034242/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/influenza-letter/

“had built a successful career in public health: Cowan, Thomas S. and Sally Fallon Morell. The Contagion Myth. Skyhorse Publishing, 2020. p.36.

Rosenau took volunteers from the US Navy, all of the most susceptible age: Rosenau, Milton J. Experiments to Determine Mode of Spread of Influenza. Journal of the American Medical Association, 2 August 1919.

there was a similar series of experiments carried out by George McCoy and De Wayne Richey: McCoy, George and DeWayne Richey. Experiments Upon Volunteers to Determine the Cause and Mode of Spread of Influenza, San Francisco, November and December, 1918. Government Printing Office, 1921.