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To: ThePythonicCow
Articles abound, about how the flu began in the US - in bootcamps, and was carried to our forces in the trenches in France, not the other way around.

Have fun.

135 posted on 12/28/2005 5:39:22 PM PST by patton ("Hard Drive Cemetary" - forthcoming best seller)
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To: patton
From what I can tell, the flu traveled both ways across "the pond." Yes, the U.S. military first noticed it in training camps here, but also the flu came back in increased numbers with the returning troops. And likely the flu traveled to troops of the Central Powers by other means than just from the Allied troops.

And in any case, this in no way provides evidence for your claim that the flu ended the Great War. That war was coming to an end anyway, with the arrival of more U.S. and other Allied troops.

Whatever ... have fun.

136 posted on 12/28/2005 5:48:14 PM PST by ThePythonicCow (The distrust of authority is a deeply destructive force in the hands of evil men.)
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