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Originally Posted by kenoc7
It should not be referred to as the "Chinese Virus - it is COVID-19. If it is you should call the flu 100 years ago the American virus because it possibly originated in Kansas.
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Actually, historians think that the Spanish Flu - the "flu 100 years ago" - originated in China.
1918 Flu Pandemic That Killed 50 Million Originated in China, Historians Say
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The deadly "Spanish flu" claimed more lives than World War I, which ended the same year the pandemic struck. Now, new research is placing the flu's emergence in a forgotten episode of World War I: the shipment of Chinese laborers across Canada in sealed train cars.
Historian Mark Humphries of Canada's Memorial University of Newfoundland says that newly unearthed records confirm that one of the side stories of the war—the mobilization of 96,000 Chinese laborers to work behind the British and French lines on World War I's Western Front—may have been the source of the pandemic.
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