[Bear_Slayer]

Anyone have any thoughts regarding Spanish Influenza of 1918, that it was created by the military for warfare?

Did this flu originate within the WWI timeframe? Was mustard gas widely used during WWI and were governments experimenting with CHEM weapons at this time?

Just curious?

[virgil]

Anyone have any thoughts regarding Spanish Influenza of 1918, that it was created by the military for warfare?

I'm not sure they had that technology in 1918. I read an article about it once I think it was in National Geographic. Many soldiers had this flu and brought it back with them. There is something about war that seems to facilitate sickness and the likelihood of pandemics, epidemics. People are not so healthy...people are sick, hungry...people are on the move and spread the disease during wars.

[Cannonball Bill]

it coincided with WWI and hit soldiers very hard on both sides. alot of military draftees got killed by it given the close approximity in recruit houses.

actually, germany was the first to use mustard gas, using it on the russians first.