From ancient history to recent history the flu virus has been around and a deadly adversary. The influenza epidemic of 1918 and 1919 in which 1/3 of the world population was infected and 50,000,000 people died was nickname "Spanish flu" because Spain, a neutral country in World War I, had no special censorship for news against the disease and its consequences. Therefore, the most reliable news about the disease came from Spain, giving the false impression that Spain was the most-if not the only-affected zone or that it originated from there. This strain has been the basis for almost all cases of influenza A worldwide since and is related to the strain of H1N1 that we are fighting today...
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