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How the Spanish Flu Worked

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Flue - The First Wave of Flue

Ground zero was haskall county, kansas. It went to camp funston, and then it went over to europe. This is the first wave that we're talking about. Some of those do boys, those american a soldiers fighting in world war one, who were in europe, made their way back to the united states. And so this, the strain of flue that had made its first wave out of kansas over toEurope, came back.

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