Tuberculosis Outbreak in KC
That's certainly one way to answer a yes or no question.
I thought a more detailed, thorough analysis and explanation of how the H1N1 pandemic virus began and then mutated and spread across the Atlantic and infected and killed tens of millions of American, British, French and German soldiers, civilians was needed.
There's likely a segment of the American population that don't know or aren't aware that the "Spanish Flu" pandemic began at Ft. Leavenworth, KS. For many years even I wasnt aware of this as I had long thought that one primary factor for the cause and spread of the H1N1 virus was due to pathogens caused by nearly four years of microscopic, biological soil being repeatedly blown up and an entire generation of soldiers living for entire months in crowded, cramped, labyrinthine of maze-like trenches ridden with diseases, malnutrition, hunger and badly-mangled dead bodies all across northeastern France and Belgium might've been an ideal breeding ground for what became the "Spanish Flu" worldwide pandemic from 1918-21.
I don't see why it would be such a big deal. At least I'm trying to sound informative and helpful in providing an historical backdrop to arguably this planet's worst pandemic since the late medieval bubonic "Black Death" pandemics which regularly hit Europe several times over a 300-400 year period and reportedly, according to some ancient classicists and Greco-Roman historians, the first precursor to the bubonic Plague first showed up in Europe from the late 150's-170's C.E. called the Antonine Plague and occured during the reigns of two Roman emperors, Antonious Pius and Marcus Aurelius.
During the 160's C.E., the Antonine Plague got so prevalent and was devastating that city of Rome became a near ghost-town and it severely affected Aurelius' Germanic campaign but due to the widespread amount of sick men, women and children, the emerging Christian movement in Rome began to be noticed by authorities and Roman elites because they converted their homes, villas and communities into make-shift hospitals and hostels so much so that in 169-70 C.E. Marcus Aurelius issued an edict of toleration towards Rome's Christian community for their work in helping to treat the very sick and dying.