[citation needed] Symptoms of dust pneumonia include high fever, chest pain, difficulty in breathing, and coughing.

[citation needed] People who had dust pneumonia often died.

[1] There are no official death rates published for the Great Plains in the 1930s.

In 1935, dozens of people died in Kansas from dust pneumonia.

[1] Red Cross volunteers made and distributed thousands of dust masks, although some farmers and other people in the affected areas refused to wear them.