The Spanish flu in Australia
The outbreak probably began on an army base in the United States in the last year of World War I. It soon reached Europe and spread. Ten per cent of Australian troops in Britain were infected, and 209 died. The Royal Australian Navy lost 26 men to the disease. It struck civilian populations and noncombatant countries. In May, it reached Spain. Neutral, and with an uncensored press, Spain was the first place to widely report
