Haskell County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and most populous city is Sublette. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 3,780. The county was named after Dudley Haskell, a congressman during the 1870s and 1880s.
Haskell County Courthouse in Sublette (2010)
Satellite image of circular crop fields in Haskell County in late June 2001.
The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was March 1918 in the state of Kansas in the United States, with further cases recorded in France, Germany and the United Kingdom in April. Two years later, nearly a third of the global population, or an estimated 500 million people, had been infected in four successive waves. Estimates of deaths range from 17 million to 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in history.
Soldiers sick with Spanish flu at a hospital ward at Camp Funston in Fort Riley, Kansas
El Sol (Madrid), 28 May 1918: "The three-day fever – In Madrid 80,000 Are Infected – H.M. the King is sick"
Front page of The Times (London), 25 June 1918: "The Spanish Influenza"
Advertisement in The Times, 28 June 1918 for Formamint tablets to prevent "Spanish influenza"