The Spanish "Flu"
Lots of claims, do they stack up?
The occurrence of the Spanish Flu during and after the First World War has somewhat familiar feel for those of us in 2021 but nevertheless has even more exaggerated claims of the ability of that virus (bacillus is its name here but that is inaccurate) to spread “thousands of miles”. Further it can only attack “human beings or animals with human characteristics” having just mentioned monkeys (we’re not monkeys, we’re apes) and then goes on to mention horses (we definitely are not horses). The attempted vaccine is a complete failure.
Story in Oamaru Mail, 24 April 1920 (but as you can see dated Feb 5th)
The Spanish “Flu” - people are just falling over (a la Wuhan 2020) in this story from England post WW1. First mention Hawera & Normanby Star 18th September 1918.
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