He contracted Spanish flu, which almost killed him.

他传染上了西班牙型流感，那几乎要了他的命。

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The Myth: Spanish flu came from Spain.

谬论：西班牙流感源于西班牙。

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The "Spanish flu" epidemic of 1918 kills at least 50 million people worldwide.

1918年“西班牙流感”大流行全世界至少被杀死5千万人。

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Scientists also completed similar research on victims of the Spanish flu epidemic in nineteen eighteen.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

That happened with the so-called Spanish flu of nineteen eighteen which killed millions worldwide.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

And scientists have done similar research on the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

It was actually the re-emergence of Spanish flu or H1N1, which people thought had gone extinct.

BBC: The flu virus that nearly killed me

Spanish flu did, however, galvanise research into vaccines, which has been going on ever since.

BBC: The flu virus that nearly killed me

The Spanish flu of 1918 may have killed more people than the first world war.

ECONOMIST: A new virus worries a twitchy world