Why do you suppose the 1918 A-H1N1 “Spanish Flu” pandemic isn't given more prominence in our school history texts?

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I think it’s odd, too. I can only guess that it is overshadowed by World War I. Ironically, people traveling around the globe for WWI probably caused the pandemic, and the flu killed 5x to 10x more people.

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