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Friday, October 12, 2018

1918 Flu Epidemic comes to Clay County

The earliest mention of the 1918 flu epidemic did not appear in county newspapers until September. The disease spread quickly and was deadly. Between 3 and 6 percent of the world's population died in the outbreak, 50 - 100 million people.


These articles appeared in The Clay County Patriot newspaper on October 17, 1918









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