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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.

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