This presentation is all about this history of influenza in Indiana. Kimberly Brown-Harden put this presentation together. It may be helpful in planning program's for Indiana's Bicentennial.

1. The Mother of all Flu Pandemics!
The flu and State Documents…
Kimberly Brown-Harden,
Indiana State Library

2. Copy of an editorial from the Western Sun
Newspaper; Vincennes, In August 20, 1808

3. Acts, 1881 Ch. 19, Sec. 1-2
• Section 1of the Act
officially established the
State Board of Health
1881
• Flavious Josephus Van
Vorhis was known as
the “father of health
legislation in Indiana”

4. Acts, 1881 (Senate Bill 93) Section 6-8
• Section 6 established
the Secretary’s annual
salary at $1200/yr.
• Section 7 established
an official registration
system for births,
deaths, and marriages.
Established the Bureau
of Vital and Sanitary
Statistics.

5. Flavious Josephus Van Vorhis, Father of
health legislation…

6. Contributors to Health Care legislation:
Dr. Thaddeus Stevens Dr. Emanuel Hawn

7. Contributors, continued:
Elijah S. Elder, M.D. Charles N. Metcalf

8. Dr. John N. Hurty, longest serving health
officer:

9. Pandemic vs. Epidemic:
• Pandemic: an
outbreak of global
proportions; causes
serious illness and
spreads easily from
person to person
• Epidemic: the
number of people who
become infected rises
well beyond what is
expected within a
country or a part of a
country.

10. The flu and World War I:
• The flu is known by many names: “Spanish flu”,
“Blitz katarrh”, “Bombay fever”, and others. The
spread was so massive because of soldiers’ locations
all over the country. This is a picture from Camp
Fuston, Kansas.....(Google Images)

11. Official Health Notice!
• This was an official
notice from the Board of
Health posted in the city
of Corydon in 1918
• Many states were
actively concerned with
health and sanitation
issues, but there was
no centralized agency.

12. The flu epidemic of 1918 caused some
deaths and many illnesses….
• Headline from the
Indianapolis Star,
November 24, 1918
• This picture is taken
from a local hospital
during the flu pandemic
of 1918 (Indiana Historical
Society Collections)

13. Flu epidemic in words and pictures….
• Headline taken from
The Indianapolis News
February 2, 1920..
• Picture of an
Indianapolis woman
taking precautionary
measures against the
epidemic (Indiana Historical
Society Collections)

14. Oriental/Asian flu….
• Pandemic first
discovered in China in
February 1957
• Spread to the United
States by June 1957
• Caused approximately
200,000 deaths
• Indiana was warned the
pandemic would hit by
early winter
• In 1957, 210 Hoosiers
died as a result…

15. First official diagnosis of the Asian flu
made in Indiana…

16. Plea for Hoosiers to get vaccinated
• State Board of Health
warns that the disease
sweeps rapidly..
• Second and third waves
of the disease can be
dangerous..
• Infection rates highest
among schoolchildren,
young adults, and
pregnant women..

17. Swine flu!!!!!
• Flu first originated in
1976 at Ft. Dix, New
Jersey
• Swine influenza first
proposed to be a
disease related to
human influenza during
the 1918 epidemic,
when pigs became sick
the same time as
humans.

18. Swine Flu….
• Controversies surrounding vaccinations caused panic
and reluctance among citizens to get vaccinated.
• The government had long feared mass panic about
swine flu—now they feared mass panic about the
swine flu vaccinations
• An unfounded link between a neuromuscular
disorder, Guillian-Barre’ syndrome, caused panic and
distrust of the government’s vaccination program

19. Russian flu….
• Began in the Union of
Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR)
• Struck population of 25
and younger
• Struck young Indiana
citizens April of 1978
• The epidemic was not
as deadly as other flu
strains, but caused
great illness.

20. Avian flu…
• Occurred in 1997 and 1999
• A few hundred people became ill in Hong
Kong and were hospitalized; 6 people died
• Virus moved directly from chickens to people,
rather than pigs
• Did not start a pandemic

21. Today’s Pandemic…

22. Today’s Pandemic: H1N1…..
• Virus first detected in April 2009
• June 2009, the World Health Organization
and the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention declared a pandemic
• Was initially called ‘Swine flu’, but after
complaints from pork producers, it is referred
to as its scientific name, H1N1

23. Influenza Resources available on the
State’s Website, IN.gov…

24. Map of Cases in the United States