Red Cross Nurses: The Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 heavily taxed the capabilities of the medical services that were available in Coeur d’Alene. Red Cross nurses like those shown posing in front of a recruitment poster were at the center of an organized response to the killer virus. They worked alongside an organized corps of local nurses and volunteers formed by local health authorities that came to the rescue by working tirelessly to treat the sick. MONI Photo AS-18-004
October 2, 2026
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MOVING HISTORY FORWARD: The Long-Forgotten Pandemic: The Spanish Flu of 1918 — Part 1
The records show that fully one-third of the global population was infected by the Spanish Flu, and the virus killed an estimated 50 million worldwide. That number included 675,000 victims in the U.S., of which 23,000 were in Idaho.