> American Flu Funny how Wikipedia mentions that it was used early on in France but in order to avoid antagonizing an ally journalists were advised (source is

> American Flu Funny how Wikipedia mentions that it was used early on in France but in order to avoid antagonizing an ally journalists were advised (source is a bit short on that) to call it the Spanish flu[1]. So there was also active suppression going on to keep the source out of the news, just back then it was at least partially war time censorship. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Geopolitical https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Geopolitical