<![CDATA[The flu pandemic that killed 50,000,000 people in the last century was first detected on a US Army base.]]>The flu pandemic that killed 50,000,000 people in the last century was first detected on a US Army base.

But sure kegsbreath, let's not vaccinate against it.

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Purple Death: The Great Flu of 1918

This article was written by Sara Francis Fujimura for the "Volume 8 No. 3 - 2003" issue of Perspectives in Health, the magazine of the Pan American Health Organization (published from 1996 to 2007).

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"When you get back home, hunt up your wood-workers and cabinet-makers and set them to making coffins. Then take your street laborers and set them to digging graves. If you do this you will not have your dead accumulating faster than you can dispose of them."

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WEAPONS AGAINST INFLUENZA. (1918). American journal of public health (New York, N.Y. : 1912), 8(10), 787–788. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.8.10.787

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sfba.social/users/morgan/statuses/116450599032976036https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sfba.social/users/morgan/statuses/116450599032976036Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:58:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The flu pandemic that killed 50,000,000 people in the last century was first detected on a US Army base. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:03:01 GMT]]>@MaryAustinBooks @davidaugust I'm an amateur genealogist and I've read many newspapers and obituaries from that time. It was awful to see whole families wiped out from the flu. That's one of the main reasons I always get a flu shot. Too many people don't understand the power of an epidemic.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/FaithinBones/statuses/116450379815286367https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/FaithinBones/statuses/116450379815286367Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:03:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The flu pandemic that killed 50,000,000 people in the last century was first detected on a US Army base. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:58:42 GMT]]>@MaryAustinBooks @davidaugust but it was a way to say the flu originated in Europe when most governments knew it started in the US.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/FaithinBones/statuses/116450362823010896https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/FaithinBones/statuses/116450362823010896Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:58:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The flu pandemic that killed 50,000,000 people in the last century was first detected on a US Army base. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:56:52 GMT]]>@FaithinBones @davidaugust
It was called the "Spanish Flu" because Spain was the only European nation that didn't censor its mortality statistics. The US and other European nations all engaged in censorship during WWI. This gave the appearance of Spain suffering disproportionate mortality.

https://www.history.com/articles/1918-pandemic-spanish-flu-censorship

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/MaryAustinBooks/statuses/116450355631300200https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/MaryAustinBooks/statuses/116450355631300200Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:56:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to The flu pandemic that killed 50,000,000 people in the last century was first detected on a US Army base. on Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:54:10 GMT]]>@davidaugust @YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world I always thought it was weird that the flu started at Ft Riley, Kansas but we ended up calling it the Spanish Flu. It's like the US decided to reject responsibility

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/FaithinBones/statuses/116450344973576959https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/FaithinBones/statuses/116450344973576959Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:54:10 GMT