He issued a warning, published in Public Health Reports to alert health officials to this new outbreak and it is the first reference to the outbreak on public record.
And then, in March of 1918, the disease disappeared. The schools reopened and the locals went back to work. And everyone turned their attention to the war in Europe.
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