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It Came Across The Plains: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic In Rural Nebraska, Kristin Watkins
It Came Across The Plains: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic In Rural Nebraska, Kristin Watkins
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The purpose of this historical case study was to understand and describe rural community experiences during the 1918 influenza pandemic in Nebraska.
Examining the rural experience in Nebraska during the 1918 influenza pandemic provided a new level of insight into the differences and similarities between the urban and rural experience. As related by a detailed study of Omaha during the 1918 pandemic, the community was devastated by disease. Despite public ordinances and health department warnings, streetcars ran at capacity, parades were held to raise money for war bonds, and the annual Aksarben Coronation took place. Cases of flu were too …