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Conlangery 147: Naming a disease

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The History of the Spanish Flu

In Spain, people didn't call it the Spanish flu because that would be very against their political motivations. And they tended to call it the French flu. But as epidemiologists later found out, the first case that they could trace back to this was patient zero was actually in Kansas.

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