{"id":4245,"date":"2020-10-13T21:01:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T04:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=4245"},"modified":"2020-10-13T22:47:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T05:47:05","slug":"spanish-influenza-brought-by-huns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/10\/13\/spanish-influenza-brought-by-huns\/","title":{"rendered":"SPANISH INFLUENZA\u00a0BROUGHT BY HUNS"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you thought that conspiracy theories were a modern invention, this one banged around the US newspapers in September 1918. Sadly, the influenza didn’t respect any borders and raged through Europe as readily as it did the USA:<\/em><\/p>\n

Riverside Daily Press<\/a>
\n19 September 1918<\/p>\n

SPANISH INFLUENZA<\/strong>\u00a0BROUGHT BY HUNS
\nHead of Health Section of Shipping Board Believes
\nHuns Sent Ashore from U-Boats to Spread the Germ
\nHave Started Epidemics in Europe<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19. \u2014 Widespread appearance of\u00a0Spanish influenza<\/strong>\u00a0along the Atlantic coast recalls warning of naval officers some weeks ago that German submarines may be responsible. Lieut. Col. P. S. Doane, head of the health section of the shipping board, today reiterated the warning.<\/p>\n

He declared; \u201cIt is quite possible the epidemic was started by huns sent ashore by boche submarine commanders. We know that men have been sent ashore from German submarines and it would be quite easy for these agents to turn loose the germs in theaters and other places where large numbers of people are assembled,\u201d<\/p>\n

When the original warning went out, it followed the capture and retention by U-boat commanders of crews and passengers from torpedoed ships and their ultimate release. It was feared that these prisoners might have been inoculated with the germs and then released to spread them.<\/p>\n

The fact that the disease has appeared in cities where there are army or navy training camps adds strength to the theory that Germans may have disseminated the germs. It has been pointed out that the malady made its appearance in Spain after the appearance in ports of that country of German U-boats. \u201cThe Germans have started epidemics in Europe, and there is no reason why they should be particularly gentle to America,\u201d said Colonel Doane.<\/p>\n

Note how the “Yankees” superior diet helped them avoid the flu:<\/em><\/p>\n

Sacramento Union 20 September 1918<\/p>\n

Yankees Immune to\u00a0Spanish Influenza<\/strong><\/p>\n

Spanish influenza<\/strong>\u00a0is ravaging Europe. Deaths to the number of 700 occurred in Spain alone. All soldiers from the allied countries suffered severely from the disease except the Americans, who, being better fed and better clad, resisted easily any attacks of the plague Surgeon General Blue of the public health service has advised the state board of health to watch for cases of\u00a0Spanish influenza<\/strong>\u00a0and report them immediately to Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you thought that conspiracy theories were a modern invention, this one banged around the US newspapers in September 1918. Sadly, the influenza didn’t respect any borders and raged through Europe as readily as it did the USA: Riverside Daily Press 19 September 1918 SPANISH INFLUENZA\u00a0BROUGHT BY HUNS Head of Health Section of Shipping Board … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,2520,14],"tags":[2855,2172,2661,2854,2662,2853,2856],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-4245","6":"format-standard","7":"category-california-newspaper-archive","8":"category-faits-divers","9":"category-pandemic","10":"category-racism","11":"post_tag-boche","12":"post_tag-german","13":"post_tag-germs","14":"post_tag-huns","15":"post_tag-spanish-influenza","16":"post_tag-submarines","17":"post_tag-u-boat"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4245"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4250,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245\/revisions\/4250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}