Where did the 1918 flu start?

Answer 1

A global influenza pandemic that killed perhaps 25 million in 1918-20, mostly in India. The means of isolating and identifying sub-microscopic viruses were not available at the time, but it is believed to have been a strain of avian (bird) flu. It is sometomes called the Spanish Flu because King Alfonso XIII was an early high-profile sufferer, though he survived. The first known cases were among US troops in Kansas, but the illness may already have been present amid the insanitary conditions of Europe's front lines.

Answer 2

A global influenza pandemic that killed perhaps 25 million in 1918-20, mostly in India. The means of isolating and identifying sub-microscopic viruses were not available at the time, but it is believed to have been a strain of avian (bird) flu. It is sometimes called the Spanish flu because King Alfonso XIII was an early high-profile sufferer, though he survived. The first known cases were among US troops in Kansas, but the illness may already have been present amid the insanitary conditions of Europe's front lines.

Answer 3

King Alfonso XIII was an early high-profile sufferer, though he survived.

During WW1 news was not as easily obtained in most places as before the war, there was news still coming from Spanish newspapers at the time, however, and because the world learned more about the flu pandemic from those sources, it became to be known as the Spanish Flu. But it is believed to have actually more likely started in the US with its spread aided by the soldiers coming home from and going to the war moving the virus along with them. It is called the 1918 flu for obvious reasons (the date that the flu pandemic was most widespread).

Answer 4

Although it is sometimes called the "Spanish flu," it is thought to have likely started in the US and spread during troop movement around the world in WW1.

Answer 5

The flu of 1918 originated in Spain. That is how it started.

Answer 6

In USA in the mid West

Answer 7

Don't know