Tag Archives: 1918 flu

Medicine at Michigan
“This Infection, Like War, Kills the Young”
Katie Vloet | Autumn 2018
As the 1918 influenza pandemic circled the globe, U-M Medical School Dean Victor Vaughan was called in to help unravel the mystery of the deadly illness.
1918 flu
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Michigan Today
Two Weeks in 1918
James Tobin | March 26, 2020
An unfamiliar strain of influenza reached Ann Arbor some time in the final days of September 1918. The early symptoms felt like a common cold plus “more marked irritation of the mucous membrane of the nose, mouth, and throat.” By October 1, 10 men and two women in their 20s and 30s, none of them University of Michigan students, had been hospitalized.
Michigan in the World
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