The deadliest pandemic in modern history, the Spanish Flu, actually originated at a Kansas army base in March 1918, not in Spain as commonly believed; Spain was only blamed because it remained neutral during World War I and freely reported on the outbreak while warring nations censored their news, making Spain's coverage the only information the world received.
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The Spanish Flu Started in Kansas — Here's Why History Got It WrongAdded:
The Spanish flu didn't start in Spain.
It started right here on a Kansas army base. March 1918.
A cook reports sick with fever.
Within days over a thousand soldiers collapse.
These infected troops shipped out to Europe spreading the virus across the Western Front.
But wartime censors in America, Britain, France, and Germany buried every report of the outbreak. Spain stayed neutral in the war. Their newspapers reported freely about the pandemic [music] ravaging their population. The world only read Spain's coverage. So history blamed them for a pandemic they never started.
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