March 4,1918An army cook at Fort Riley, Kansas, reported to the infirmary with a temperature of 103.1 F.Within two days another 521 men became sick. It is one of the first recorded outbreaks of what came to be known as the Spanish flu. Approximately one-third of the world's population became infected with this virus. But at last the plague of 1918 found us too, and that silent killer was about to drag us into hell." Isolation is the key," my husband, Dr. John Gallagher, kept saying. As the town's only physician, John oversaw the health of approximately 1,400 people.