![]() Earliest estimates claimed it killed 20 to 40 million worldwide but current experts now say 50 - 100 million is possible. ![]() Initially it was not particularly contagious but a second wave in August struck young adults harder than younger or older age groups because the new strains reacted negatively to their more advanced immune systems. Because countries censored news during wartime, Spain, which was neutral during the War, was the first country to publicize it. Americcan soldiers brought it to Europe during World War I, where it quickly spread throughout the world - even to remote Eskimo villages in Alaska. ![]() Although some historians say it began in China, there is no agreement on where it started although its beginnings as a pandemic began in Kansas between January and March 1918, infecting the military post at Fort Riley. The Spanish-flu epidemic of 1918-1919 was a misnomer. ![]()
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