[Charles Martel]

The “experts” always want to involve the United States in the Spanish Flu propagation story, but I think there is a greater chance that the “Chinese Labour Corps” workers hired by the British to free up men for front-line duty might have played a role. I believe the French did likewise, too - and all late in the war.

[frank ballenger]

Another special from “Asia”-——

The Asian Flu I had in the Fall of 1957 hit me hard possibly because I had already had rheumatic fever in 1954 and was sickly a lot as a kid.

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In February 1957, a new influenza A (H2N2) virus emerged in East Asia, triggering a pandemic (“Asian Flu”).
This H2N2 virus was comprised of three different genes from an H2N2 virus that originated from an avian influenza A virus....

Smithsonian says:
The pandemic of 1957-58 ultimately caused 1.1 million deaths worldwide, and it follows the 1918 crisis as the second-most severe influenza outbreak in U.S. history. Some 20 million Americans were infected, and 116,000 died.