Did anyone hear Saint Cuomo lie about Spanish Flu?

Truth Detector said:
All the books indicate soldiers brought it home with them after the war. The war was fought in Europe and ME.
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It wasn't AFTER the war. It was mid 1918, when the war was still very much going on. It's just as likely that American troops TOOK it to Europe.

But there is no consensus on the source, except it wasn't Spain. Want to try for China?
 
Tranquillus in Exile said:
It wasn't AFTER the war. It was mid 1918, when the war was still very much going on. It's just as likely that American troops TOOK it to Europe.
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The books state when the troops came home with it you dimwit. The war ended in November 1918 dimwit. No, our troops never took it to Europe and no historian on the planet has made such a moronic claim.

Tranquillus in Exile said:
But there is no consensus on the source, except it wasn't Spain. Want to try for China?
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When did I, or anyone else, say it did asshat? Why don't you cheer for China? #moron
 
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Truth Detector said:
The books state when the troops came home with it you dimwit. The war ended in November 1918 dimwit. No, our troops never took it to Europe and no historian on the planet has made such a moronic claim.
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Scientists still do not know for sure where the Spanish Flu originated, though theories point to France, China, Britain, or the United States, where the first known case was reported at Camp Funston in Fort Riley, Kansas, on March 11, 1918.

Some believe infected soldiers spread the disease to other military camps across the country, then brought it overseas. In March 1918, 84,000 American soldiers headed across the Atlantic and were followed by 118,000 more the following month.

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/1918-flu-pandemic#section_6

You should read more books. Or at least a book. Make it up if you have to.
 
Truth Detector said:
No, our troops never took it to Europe and no historian on the planet has made such a moronic claim.
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"Some believe infected soldiers spread the disease to other military camps across the country, then brought it overseas. In March 1918, 84,000 American soldiers headed across the Atlantic and were followed by 118,000 more the following month."

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/1918-flu-pandemic

"Although some researchers argue that the 1918 pandemic began elsewhere, in France in 1916 or China and Vietnam in 1917, many other studies indicate a U.S. origin. The Australian immunologist and Nobel laureate Macfarlane Burnet, who spent most of his career studying influenza, concluded the evidence was “strongly suggestive” that the disease started in the United States and spread to France with “the arrival of American troops.” Camp Funston had long been considered as the site where the pandemic started until my historical research, published in 2004, pointed to an earlier outbreak in Haskell County."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/journal-plague-year-180965222/

Oops. There is some debate about where the virus started, but there are MANY historians that believe it originated in the US and was taken overseas by troops in the Spring of 1918. Do you know ANYTHING?
 
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