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What started the Spanish flu?

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Even though it’s called the Spanish flu it’s didn’t originate there, 1918 flu pandemic, was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza
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It was caused by an H1N1 virus with genes of avian origin. Meaning, it came/spread from birds such as North American and wild.

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