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Collected Item: “Blame China for the Flue”

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Blame China for the Flue

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Newspaper

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In the article, the author states that the pandemic could be traced not to Spain but Asia; and that China was a breeder of all kinds of contagious diseases which might spread over the earth if they were not checked at their source.

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Canadian Newspaper in 1918 blamed China as the source of the flu.

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The Globe Toronto

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1918-11-16
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