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I don't think about Spanish flu when I think about travel to Spain.
by clarry 7y ago
I don't think about Spanish flu when I think about travel to Spain.
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- Beltiras 7y agoIt's been a while.
- clarry 7y agoSo much for the forever, then.
- annodomini2019 7y agoHow about the next few decades, then.
- ptha 7y agoYou shouldn't, it didn't originate in Spain. Even today, experts aren’t certain where the outbreak originated. Some say China, some say the American Midwest, and others suggest France. But one thing’s for certain—it wasn’t Spain. “Nobody calls it [the Spanish flu],” says Albert Bosch, president of the Spanish Society for Virology. “It just happened to be the place where it was reported, and that’s it.” Arnold says the Spaniards themselves had different names for the virus—sometimes “the French flu” for their historic rival, sometimes “Naples Soldier” after a popular musical—but it was the name in the Times that would stick. [1] https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/the-origin-of-the-spanish-flu/ https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/the-origin-of-the-spa...
- jfarlow 7y agoAnd it was only reported there because every other country was at war and censored internal news: https://www.history.com/news/why-was-it-called-the-spanish-flu https://www.history.com/news/why-was-it-called-the-spanish-f...