The Spanish Flu and the Spanish Legion

Fall was a particularly good time for it to spread in Spain because September is a harvest month and it's also the month when many Spanish cities would host bull fights. The army would send new recruits to Zamora to conduct artillery drills, some of these recruits were sick by the time They hit Zamora and many soon followed. At first the city government attempted to quarantine sick soldiers in their barracks but this did not work probably do partly to the fact that soldiers infected people before anyone knew that they were sick. You just you can't trust stop soldiers from fucking, especially Spanish soldiers.