My understanding is that the soldiers were vaccinated before returning home, just in case they brought some exotic disease home with them, and this apparently was in or around Spain somewhere {sorry of my ignorance} which is why it was called the "Spanish Flu". Spain apparently were quite disturbed and annoyed by that term when it had nothing to do with Spain in real terms. N.
Subject: CS>Spanish Flu - Epidemic of 1918 From: ala...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 18:48:08 -0700 To: silver-list@eskimo.com As far as history, it is written by the victors and no one can truly say if the Spanish flu was actually a flu or whatever, but to say that vacciation is safe because you made it through is a bit weak. Alan