- Details
- Genre: Documentary
- Description: As the nation mobilized for war in the spring of 1918, ailing Private Albert Gitchell reported to an army hospital in Kansas. He was diagnosed with the flu, a disease about which doctors knew little. Before the year was out, America would be ravaged by a flu epidemic that killed 675,000 people-more than died in all the wars of this century combined-before disappearing as mysteriously as it began.
- Title: American Experience: Influenza 1918
- Format: DVD
- TV Rating: TV-MA
- Studio: PBS
- Release Date: 06/06/2006
- Genre: Documentary
- Season: Not Applicable
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- Product Name: American Experience: Influenza 1918 - DVD
- UPC: 841887006385
As the nation mobilized for war in the spring of 1918, ailing Private Albert Gitchell reported to an army hospital in Kansas. He was diagnosed with the flu, a disease about which doctors knew little. Before the year was out, America would be ravaged by a flu epidemic that killed 675,000 people-more than died in all the wars of this century combined-before disappearing as mysteriously as it began.
