"Walking Flu" Is Epidemic In Cleveland

• “Walking flu” described as mild influenza involving “hiccoughs, sore throats and mild fever”• Those ill encouraged to stay home and get medical treatment• Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) reports inability to locate cause of influenza – experiments involving healthy volunteers and flu germ in Boston and San Francisco failed • 13,367 Ohioans died of flu in October and November, most victims aged 20-34Newspaper article