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What Caused the 1918 Flu Pandemic?
Although the human influenza virus wasn’t even discovered until 1933, an inspector with the U.S. Bureau of Animal Industry had been publishing research as early as 1919 that suggested a role for farm animals in the pandemic. Inspector J.S. Koen of Fort Dodge, Iowa, wrote: “The similarity of the epidemic among people and the epidemic among pigs was so close, the reports so frequent, that an outbreak in the family would be followed immediately by an outbreak among the hogs, and vice versa, as to present a most striking coincidence if not suggesting a close relation between the two conditions. It looked like ‘flu,’ and until proven it was not ‘flu,’ I shall stand by that diagnosis.”
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