No More War, No More Plague – The Spanish Influenza Pandemic Toll on Montana

On October 10, 2018 as part of the centennial celebrations commemorating the Armistice  titled Memories and Legacies of World War I, Todd Harwell gave a lecture at the Museum of the Rockies called, “No More War, No More Plague: The Spanish Influenza Pandemic’s Toll on Montana.” Todd Harwell is the Administrator of the Public Health and Safety Division in the MT Dept. of Public Health and Human Services. He was introduced by Dr. Steven D. Helgerson, who served for 9 years as Montana’s State Medical Officer, and is the author of the book, A COUNTRY DOCTOR AND THE EPIDEMICS MONTANA 1917-1918, an historical novella. Their article, co-authored with Greg s. Holzman, with many of the slides shown in the lecture can be viewed here: https://mhs.mt.gov/Portals/11/education/WWI/HarwellFlu.pdf

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