“The activity of the Vienna Municipal Administration at the Chairmen’s Conference during the World War” on the spread of Spanish flu, extract (p. 101)

At the end of the war the world was plagued by a terrible flu epidemic which claimed 25 million victims, many more than had died during the war. Although it did not come from the Iberian peninsula, as often assumed, but probably broke out in America, it is still known today as the Spanish Flu.