Concerning the Spanish Flu check these websites. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/influenza/ This PBS site includes a timeline of events http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Flu http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/ http://www.ninthday.com/spanish_flu.htm The quote below comes from the website directly above. Gives all of us pause for thought "As Webster reminds〓 us, "All the genes of all influenza viruses in the world are being maintained in aquatic birds, and periodically they transmit to other species... The 1918 viruses are still being maintained in the bird reservoir. So even though these viruses are very ancient, they still have the capacity to evolve, to acquire new genes, new hosts. The potential is still there for the catastrophe of 1918 to happen again." All sites indicate Kansas as the initial site of the flu symptoms.