The 1918 Flu Pandemic - Trench Fever - Part 2 - Extra History

📜 The 1918 Flu Pandemic: Trench Fever - The flu arrived in France. It found a pleasant home in the crowded wartime trenches, much to the dismay of the Allies who tried to keep the flu a secret. When it made its way to Madrid, not subject to wartime censorship, it picked up the nickname "Spanish flu."
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[@Nerdnumberone]

The possibility that mustard gas helped the flu mutate into a more deadly strain reminds me of all those (often terrible) sci-fi monster movies where chemical waste accidentally creates a horrible monster to mutate from more mundane organisms.

[@anonbefallen4807]

Imagine in like 10 years an extra history on Covid 19

[@user-tu4ce9zv8d]

It's shocking that nobody ever talks about this influenza despite its huge impacts on the history of mankind

[@crazycoderal]

Who is here because of the Corona Virus?

[@influenza3736]

I have struck again!

[@dreauthrams8871]

The weird deal is that even the most remote areas were infected somehow. Here in WA a town called peach, which is now under lake Roosevelt was a very remote town only accessible during the summer months. 3/4 of the town or more died in late 1918. Zero contact with the outside world.

[@connorwalters3240]

No-one expects the Spanish Influenza!!!

[@shellshocker9295]

1920: it's over, 100 years later, 2020: it's back

[@Peanutjoepap24]

This Wonder Woman fanfic got really dark

[@Achillez098]

Ah, so THAT'S why it's called "The Spanish Flu"

[@sirrliv]

Also worth noting regarding the failure of Operation Michael (the last German offensive mentioned here) was the breakdown in discipline among the German troops once exposed to captured French territory. Numerous reports have circulated of German units capturing French villages well behind the original trench lines only for their advance to mysteriously stop. When officers were sent forward to see what was wrong, they often found their troops drunk on French wine or gorging themselves on sausage and cheese, food and drink in quantities they hadn't seen for years due to rationing forced by the Entente blockade. Even when threatened with courtmartial, some units simply refused to move until the towns had been stripped bare. It's pure conjecture on my part, but it seems very possible that many German troops may have contracted the flu while on these pillaging kinda-mutinies.

[@ninjadude853]

As I watch this video, I realize that this is probably the disease that killed my great-grandmother when my grandma was a baby.

[@LightAnkou]

Vomits blood

[@odysseish5382]

Humans: "Oh, disease is better at killing us than we are? WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT."

[@bobhumplick4213]

1:27

[@thesaladman8400]

Earth: Well I didn't expect some sort of Spanish Influenza.

[@fahyaz3643]

God was playing Plague Inc.

[@njord3582]

KOFFING intensifies

[@taptapuyo2714]

British, Americans, French: we can win this war