Calls for preparations against a further spread did not get a response from the federal administration, while attempts to build connections between local hospitals petered out together with the first wave.
Together with other medical experts, he tried to draw attention to the epidemic through publications in journals and newspapers, but these attempts did not have much success the Weltkrieg still dominated the headlines. Jordan in May and June first became aware of the national level of the dangers of the years’ influenza wave. There, at the University of Chicago, the bacteriologist Edwin O. Several weeks after the initial reports, cases were being reported throughout the US, concentrated in the major cities such as New York, San Francisco or Chicago.
He also asked the federal health services for help, which was denied. In several medical articles, Miner described the speed and relentlessness of an influenza wave in rural Haskell County. The first reports of a particularly deadly strain of influenza were published by the Kansas doctor Loring Miner in early 1918. Due to the absence of these factors in the United States, far more information is available to speculate on the virus' source there. However, in the former two cases serious inquiry has been frustrated by an absence of reliable information, stemming from China's frequent internal conflicts and lagging development, Weltkrieg-era censorship on both sides of the Western Front, and the destruction of still-sealed documents in the 1925 British Revolution. The exact origin of the virus remains unknown, but several hypothesized locations have gained traction within the medical community: China, France, and the United States.
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