Name: 第一章｜1918年流感 (Chapter 1 | Influenza 1918)
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that they could be healthy in the morning

NARRATOR: It was the worst epidemic this country has ever known.

than all the wars this century, combined.

who was going to be next on the death list.

WOMAN: There were so many people dying that you ran out of things

that you'd never considered running out of before-- caskets.

NARRATOR: Before it was over, it almost broke America apart.

WOMAN: I remember my mother putting a white sheet,

NARRATOR: In 1918, the United States was a vigorous young nation

All our fears and anxieties were directed toward Europe,

William Maxwell was growing up in Lincoln, Illinois.

MAN: In 1918, Lincoln was a town of 12,000 people.

so that the branches met over the sidewalks.

The children played in clusters in the summer evenings.

On Sunday morning, the church bells were pretty to hear,

but my father had had enough of churchgoing

NARRATOR: In Macon, Georgia, Cathryn Guyler was five years old.

WOMAN: My father was a playmate, actually,

he would stop at a grocery store that he knew

and the owner of the store, in his white uniform,

I think I must have known that candy didn't grow on that tree,

because he was enjoying it, and I was enjoying it,

NARRATOR: For a young newspaper woman in Denver, Katherine Anne Porter,

PORTER (dramatized): I had a job on the Rocky Mountain News.

The city editor put me to covering theaters.

NARRATOR: The soldier was the darling of America.

in a country newly entered in the Great War.

singing, "Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching.

"and we'll get a lemon pie and we'll squash him in his eye

NARRATOR: Some say it began in the spring of 1918,

when soldiers at Fort Riley, Kansas, burned tons of manure.

A choking dust storm swept out over the land--

an army private reported to the camp hospital before breakfast.

He had a fever, sore throat, headache -- nothing serious.

One minute later, another soldier showed up.

By noon, the hospital had over a hundred cases.

That spring, 48 soldiers, all in the prime of life,

The cause of death was listed as pneumonia.

For over a century, the booming science of medicine

Researchers had developed vaccines for many diseases:

smallpox, anthrax, rabies, diphtheria, meningitis.

WOMAN: With the great advances in microbiology,

The optimism of being able to visualize something --

all we have to do is just look under the microscope

and we'll see the organism and then take an action

and see that something die off or be controlled.

That leads to the thought of invincibility.

NARRATOR: It seemed that the masters of medicine

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第一章｜1918年流感 (Chapter 1 | Influenza 1918)

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