Funny, is it not, that John in Kansas should be our resident Spanish Flu expert, when, from the Stanford University website about influenza, it develops that the first outbreaks of the "Spanish Influenza" occurred, not in Spain, but in March and April of 1918, at US military bases, particularly in Kansas--


Also food for thought, this website--THE SPANISH INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC OF 1918 WAS CAUSED BY VACCINATIONS which puts forth the idea that the flu was actually an iatrogenic paratyphoid which occurred as a consequence of wide spread multiple vaccinations, initially given to servicemen, and later to the general population--

I don't know that I exactly buy the idea, but the writer, one Dr. Eleanor McBean(who wrote this at the time of the "Swine Flu" scare), points out that public health advocates and vaccine manufacturers have had a pattern of spreading fear in anticipation of influenza outbreaks before a single case has occurred--which is definitely the case with this "bird flu"--