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  1. The first case of Spanish Flu was reported at Ft. Riley Kansas on March 4, 1918. Ft. Riley has been an Army biological research center since it was opened. (Remember the Indian blankets infected by small pox?)
    Thousands of troops left Ft. Riley in 1918 on their way to the war in Europe. They stopped in Boston to board transport ships.
    Boston experienced the first serious Spanish Flu outbreak in the United States.
    Interestingly of the millions who died from the flu the vast majority of them were under 30 and male.
    Just the sort of people fighting in the trenches in WWI.
    Although the allied forces suffered serious losses due to the flu (they seemed to have had some sort of vaccine), the German ranks were decimated. So much so that the Germans sued for peace due to a lack of manpower.
    Who the flu kills is built right into the virus. The question is: by whom?

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