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Yes IIRC, the Spanish Flu started in a Texas army base and spread to Europe as the troops were sent there. This is from a documentary that I saw, but it has been a while, the details are blurred now.

[An American In Dairyland]

"Yes IIRC, the Spanish Flu started in a Texas army base"

It allegedly started at Camp Funston (now Fort Reilly), Kansas. Camp Funston was probably one of the first places to openly report the illness, however, there really isn't any way to ascertain where the flu originated.