From our history section: Patient Zero for the “Spanish Flu” was a private at an Army base in Kansas, this month in 1918; according to Republicans the “Spanish Flu” should therefore be renamed the “United States Flu”…
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It ended up being called the “Spanish flu” because the Spanish press did not suppress the story. From history.com:
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-cases-reported-in-deadly-influenza-epidemic
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Thanks to Tim Campbell.
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