Men wear masks in Alberta during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. The global community of influenza experts is a small circle. These days, itís an exhausted, alarmed one as well.
Over 100 years later, it's still remembered as the Spanish Flu. But the pandemic didn't originate in Spain.A memorable brand can define a product for decades.
Public officials in Germany, France, the United Kingdom and the United States all chose to either suppress the pandemic news or downplay the severity of the virus. This extensive — and almost solitary — reporting of the disease in May of 1918 amidst a virtual media blackout in most other countries gave the world the false impression the disease had originated in Spain.
When boatloads of American soldiers were shipped out, they took the virus with them. The influenza tore across Europe. It was so serious, it impacted the war, with over 200,000 French and British soldiers becoming too ill to fight. The British Grand Fleet could not even be put out to sea as 10,300 men reported sick. Soon, the German forces were felled with the same virus.
When Spanish Flu health messages of 1918 finally emerged, they looked strikingly similar to COVID-19 messages of today.
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