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Did the US pay reparations to essentially all the nations for the 1918 flu? This originated among cattle in Kansas, and killed 50 million people: more than WW1
by aziom23 7y ago
Did the US pay reparations to essentially all the nations for the 1918 flu? This originated among cattle in Kansas, and killed 50 million people: more than WW1 and WW2 combined.
- dmilotz 7y agoDo you have sources for such a claim?
- lorenzfx 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Hypotheses_about_the_source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Hypotheses_about_t...
- dmilotz 7y agoThe above claim that it started in Kansas is one hypothesis among many others. This is another hypothesis from the same wikipedia section: "In 1993, Claude Hannoun, the leading expert on the 1918 flu for the Pasteur Institute, asserted the former virus was likely to have come from China."