Spanish Influenza Research Paper

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How did the Spanish Influenza come about? How did they find a cure for it?
My first source is a public health journal titled “Spanish Influenza: The Flu” by Dr. John Dill Robertson. The author is a Health Commissioner for the city of Chicago that decided to keep people up to date about the outbreak. The Spanish flu originated in Valencia, Spain in 1647 where later in 1890 came back and spread to Russia first and then the surrounding countries. Toward the end of WWI, in 1918, is when the flu was at its worse. The symptoms of the Spanish flu were fever, pain all over the body, and severe sickness feeling. In this journal it does not mention how the flu started, but it mentions were it came from.

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