Posted 5/3/2009 12:30 (#701611 - in reply to #701602) Subject: RE: Mexican flu,why?
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On this board, it's probably a dig at our southern neighbors who like to flout the border rules. More generally, an influenza pandemic is usually named after the region where it was first widely reported. Thus, the 1918 pandemic was long after called the Spanish Flu, even though it appears to have originated in Kansas.
Mexican flu
