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To: LouD

And for the record the 1918 pandemic started in Europe at the end of WWI.


56 posted on 01/02/2010 10:03:28 PM PST by the long march
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To: the long march

Actually, for the record, the term “Spanish Flu” was a misnomer; the 1918 pandemic is thought to have originated in the Spring of 1918, in Kansas, at a military cantonment called Camp Funston. WWI did not end until November 11th, when Armistice was signed with Germany.


57 posted on 01/02/2010 10:22:44 PM PST by LouD ("against all enemies, foreign and domestic...")
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