Fact check: Why is the 1918 influenza virus called 'Spanish flu'?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The claim: The 1918 flu pandemic became known as the “Spanish flu” because wartime censors minimized reports of the illness while the Spanish press did not.

On March 20, the Facebook page Unbelievable Facts shared a graphic on the origins of the 1918 flu pandemic’s more common name, the “Spanish flu.”

According to the post, the pandemic earned the name “because during WWI, wartime censors minimized early reports of illness and mortality” in combating nations “but the papers were free to report the epidemic’s effects in neutral Spain, which created a false impression of Spain as being especially hard hit.”


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/coronavirus/fact-check-why-is-the-1918-influenza-virus-called-spanish-flu/ar-BB11AbHx?ocid=msn360

[beachbumbob]

1. They couldn't call it the "Kansas Flu/" could they

[MFM008]

2. I have a book

Called 'American Pandemic'.