This Day in History: , First Cases Reported in <br />Deadly Influenza Pandemic.<br />March 11, 1918.<br />Private Albert Glitchell <br />reported flu-like symptoms at <br />the Fort Riley hospital in Kansas.<br />Hours later, <br />more than 100 soldiers on the <br />base reported symptoms.<br />The virulent influenza <br />spread to other army bases, prisons <br />and then across the Atlantic, where <br />World War I continued to rage.<br />The virus came to be known as Spanish flu. <br />The influenza was responsible <br />for eight million deaths in Spain.<br />Even after the end of the war, <br />Spanish flu continued to wreak international havoc.<br />28 percent of Americans <br />became infected. 675,000 Americans died.<br />Worldwide, deaths due <br />to the Spanish flu pandemic are <br />estimated between 20 and 50 million
