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"STDs come from anyone except us!" - Everyone (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

God dang americans infecting everyone and then blaming it on the spanish because they were neutral and it was not in the national interest to hide the flu because of war.

[โ€“] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

TBF, at the time, no one actually knew where it came from. Decades went by before it was mostly deciphered that it likely came from the US.