Posted on 03/19/2020 1:35:07 PM PDT by Zenyatta
Coincidentally, it has been theorized that — despite its name — the Spanish flu may have originated in China. Close to 100,000 Chinese laborers were put to work during WWI, passing it to the English and French. Once it hit the sprawling military hospital installations, where many patients had been gassed, all hell broke loose. It’s no coincidence that researchers developing each year’s seasonal flu vaccine do their research in Asian and in China in particular.
The Spanish flu didn’t really start in Spain so they could at least make a case for it. No such excuse for Wuhan
Coronavirus.
While National Geographic admits THAT strain probably originated in China, too.
1918 Flu Pandemic That Killed 50 Million Originated in China, Historians Say
Chinese laborers transported across Canada thought to be source.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/1/140123-spanish-flu-1918-china-origins-pandemic-science-health/
So if they want to change the name from 'Spanish Flu', to 'Yet another Plague/Flu from China', I'm OK with that...
The USSR would be proud!
Offensive to residents of Southern Connecticut, we need to rename Lyme Disease... and, while we’re at it, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.
More insanity.
What I don’t understand is why it was called “Spanish Flu” in the first place. The actual avian influenza virus originated in Haskell County, Kansas USA in January 1918. Although it infected several of the local farmers and produced a very deadly bacterial pneumonia, the most severe outbreak died out temporarily by March.
It wasn’t until the US Government created the Camp Funston training camp at Ft. Riley, Kansas which was about 260 miles northwest of Haskell that the future pandemic would infect its hosts, the US soldiers destined for the trenches of France in WWI. Some of them had been inducted from Haskell County and in March they brought the influenza into camp. It was the virus from these troops, mutated several times into an even more lethal strain, that spread through US and British troops in Europe and returned to Boston and Philadelphia with infected sailors.
Technically, it should be called the Haskell flu.
If this Virus had started in the USA, the Media would be calling it the Trump Flu.
Yeah rewrite history for the sjw and woke crowd....fo
“...’Spanish Flu’, since that is where the Western Press first noticed it at the time).
That said, the world has called it Spanish Flu for a hundred years now and I’m pretty sure that Spain has gotten over the racist hurt.
Better change Ebola too.
Any others?
The Spanish Flu did not originate there. It was called that because Spain was neutral during the war (WW1) and their press wasn’t censored.
Won’t using “1918” in the name have the potential of stigmatizing the whole year and by extension anyone and anything related to it. I don’t think that’s fair to people born in 1918.
MERS, St Louis encephalitis, LaCrosse encephalitis, West Nile Virus, Ebola, Marburg, Crimean hemorrhagic fever, Omsk hemorrhagic fever, Lassa fever, Lyme disease….
If came from F##king China
Yes, of course, Spanish is a race. So is Wuhan.
To be fair maybe change the name to “Kansas Flu” as it is widely believed that the epidemic began there.
Thanks for the background info regarding the possible origin of the ‘Spanish Flu’ moniker.
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