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<blockquote data-quote="Old Man Jingles" data-source="post: 4408948" data-attributes="member: 18222"><p>No one knows where it started but almost everyone agrees it did not start in Spain. - OMJ</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong><a href="https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/47/5/668/296225" target="_blank">The 1918 “Spanish Flu” in Spain</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">The total numbers of persons who died of influenza in Spain were officially estimated to be 147,114 in 1918, 21,235 in 1919, and 17,825 in 1920. However, it is <strong>likely that >260,000 Spaniards died of influenza</strong>; 75% of these persons died during the second period of the epidemic, and 45% died during October 1918 alone. The Spanish population growth index was negative for 1918 (net loss, 83,121 persons). </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong><a href="https://www.history.com/news/why-was-it-called-the-spanish-flu" target="_blank">Why Was It Called the 'Spanish Flu?</a></strong></span></p><p><strong>The 1918 influenza pandemic did not, as many people believed, originate in Spain.</strong></p><p></p><p>While it’s unlikely that the “Spanish Flu” originated in Spain, scientists are still unsure of its source. France, China and Britain have all been suggested as the potential birthplace of the virus, as has the United States,<span style="color: #ff0000"> where the <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-cases-reported-in-deadly-influenza-epidemic" target="_blank">first known case</a> was reported at a military base in Kansas on March 11, 1918. </span>Researchers have also conducted extensive studies on the remains of victims of the pandemic, but they have yet to discover why the strain that ravaged the world in 1918 was so lethal.</p><p></p><p>Spain was one of only a few major European countries to remain neutral during World War I. Unlike in the Allied and Central Powers nations, where wartime censors suppressed news of the flu to avoid affecting morale, the Spanish media was free to report on it in gory detail. News of the sickness first made headlines in Madrid in late-May 1918, and coverage only increased after the Spanish King Alfonso XIII came down with a nasty case a week later. Since nations undergoing a media blackout could only read in depth accounts from Spanish news sources, they naturally assumed that the country was the pandemic’s ground zero. The Spanish, meanwhile, believed the virus had spread to them from France, so they took to calling it the “French Flu.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Old Man Jingles, post: 4408948, member: 18222"] No one knows where it started but almost everyone agrees it did not start in Spain. - OMJ [SIZE=6][B][URL='https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/47/5/668/296225']The 1918 “Spanish Flu” in Spain[/URL][/B][/SIZE] [COLOR=#0000ff]The total numbers of persons who died of influenza in Spain were officially estimated to be 147,114 in 1918, 21,235 in 1919, and 17,825 in 1920. However, it is [B]likely that >260,000 Spaniards died of influenza[/B]; 75% of these persons died during the second period of the epidemic, and 45% died during October 1918 alone. The Spanish population growth index was negative for 1918 (net loss, 83,121 persons). [/COLOR] [SIZE=6][B][URL='https://www.history.com/news/why-was-it-called-the-spanish-flu']Why Was It Called the 'Spanish Flu?[/URL][/B][/SIZE] [B]The 1918 influenza pandemic did not, as many people believed, originate in Spain.[/B] While it’s unlikely that the “Spanish Flu” originated in Spain, scientists are still unsure of its source. France, China and Britain have all been suggested as the potential birthplace of the virus, as has the United States,[COLOR=#ff0000] where the [URL='https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-cases-reported-in-deadly-influenza-epidemic']first known case[/URL] was reported at a military base in Kansas on March 11, 1918. [/COLOR]Researchers have also conducted extensive studies on the remains of victims of the pandemic, but they have yet to discover why the strain that ravaged the world in 1918 was so lethal. Spain was one of only a few major European countries to remain neutral during World War I. Unlike in the Allied and Central Powers nations, where wartime censors suppressed news of the flu to avoid affecting morale, the Spanish media was free to report on it in gory detail. News of the sickness first made headlines in Madrid in late-May 1918, and coverage only increased after the Spanish King Alfonso XIII came down with a nasty case a week later. Since nations undergoing a media blackout could only read in depth accounts from Spanish news sources, they naturally assumed that the country was the pandemic’s ground zero. The Spanish, meanwhile, believed the virus had spread to them from France, so they took to calling it the “French Flu.” [/QUOTE]
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