Spread Far and Fast.

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      COLUMNS THE NEW DISEASE, PUBLIC OFFICIALS SAID as people began to fall ill with unfamiliar symptoms, was "trifling" and "nothing to worry about provided ordinary precautions were taken." The pandemic spread far and fast, not least because it was helped on its way, as so many pandemics over the centuries have been, by troop movements, which were taking place on a global scale as the war entered its final stage. It was only with the arrival of the second wave of the pandemic, which followed a period of relaxation of controls, that infections and deaths began to rise, with Greece reporting some 3,600 deaths from the pandemic by the middle of December. This conflict between economic interest and medical science isn't an aspect of the Spanish flu that Arnold's book has much to say about, though it's clear that state authorities' denial or trivialization of the pandemic in its early stages was governed above all by economic considerations. [Extracted from the article]
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