Maybe "traditional" is the wrong word; what I meant is that there doesn't seem to have been any discoveries that argue strongly against Kansas being the start of the outbreak. As the submitted article states:

> We cannot say for certain that that happened in 1918 in Haskell County, but we do know that an influenza outbreak struck in January...The report itself no longer exists, but it stands as the first recorded notice anywhere in the world of unusual influenza activity that year.

And later in the article:

> Although some researchers argue that the 1918 pandemic began elsewhere, in France in 1916 or China and Vietnam in 1917, many other studies indicate a U.S. origin. The Australian immunologist and Nobel laureate Macfarlane Burnet, who spent most of his career studying influenza, concluded the evidence was “strongly suggestive” that the disease started in the United States and spread to France with “the arrival of American troops.” Camp Funston had long been considered as the site where the pandemic started until my historical research, published in 2004, pointed to an earlier outbreak in Haskell County.