TIL maintain morale, WWI wartime censors blocked early reports of the 1918 Influenza epidemic in their countries. However, papers were free to report the epidemic's effects in neutral Spain, creating a false impression of Spain as especially hard hit—thus the pandemic's nickname, the Spanish flu.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic



Submitted December 21, 2014 at 09:09PM by Chafuter http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2pz804/til_maintain_morale_wwi_wartime_censors_blocked/