By the fall of 1918 everyone in Europe was calling the disease the “Spanish” influenza, probably because neutral Spain did not impose the wartime censorship of news about the outbreak prevalent in combatant countries.
By the fall of 1918 everyone in Europe was calling the disease the “Spanish” influenza, probably because neutral Spain did not impose the wartime censorship of news about the outbreak prevalent in combatant countries.
到了1918年秋季，欧洲人都把这次流感称做「西班牙流感」，可能是因为大战时维持中立的西班牙，对于交战国所发生的流感爆发并没有采取新闻封锁，于是该称呼也就深植一般人的脑海。