National Hotel Disease

Buchanan and his travelling companions fell ill with the same symptoms that had floored buchanan at the end of january. By midmonth, newspapers were giving their reader regular reports on the affair. It's hard to say exactly how many people were stricken. Some estimate that it was around a thousand, but that's likely too high. Doctor folts said that over 400 people got sick. And here's the really scary part, ten % of them died.