The last great flu outbreak was the La Gripe Española or the "Spanish" Flu of 1918. It killed some 50 to 100 million people worldwide till 1919 and is thought to be one of the deadliest pandemics in human history.
If the outbreak and impact of this pandemic was fairly global in nature, and considering the fact that neither did it originate in Spain nor create the most number of deaths in Spain, why is it that the outbreak is referred to as "Spanish"?
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Acc to wikipedia, its so named because Spain was the first one to report about the virus on a large scale. Spain did not participate in WW I and had no news restrictions ...
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