The Explorers' Club, № DCLX

Operation AXIOM: After the World War—The Spanish Flu, Part III
November 1918: The influenza pandemic reached Spain, a neutral country where wartime censorship was not in place; King Alfonso XIII (1886-1941) contracted the flu, & his illness & recovery was widely reported; the lack of press censorship created the false impression that Spain was hit harder than the triumphant Entente Powers or the vanquished Central Powers, thus the nickname, the "Spanish Flu."

Lest we forget.