"Spanish flu" is something of a misnomer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu --- To maintain morale, wartime

"Spanish flu" is something of a misnomer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu --- To maintain morale, wartime censors minimized early reports of illness and mortality in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States.[10][11] Papers were free to report the epidemic's effects in neutral Spain (such as the grave illness of King Alfonso XIII).[12] These stories created a false impression of Spain as especially hard hit,[13] thereby giving rise to the pandemic's nickname, "Spanish flu".[14] ... The major troop staging and hospital camp in Étaples, France, was identified by researchers as being at the center of the Spanish flu. --- So actually the "French Flu"