A form of influenza that spread to nearly every part of the world in a pandemic between 1918 and 1920, killing from 20 to 100 million people.
Origin
Named after Spain, which reported on the spread of disease while most other countries were concealing it, leading to a mistaken impression that it was concentrated in Spain.
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