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Some 90 years before a swine flu pandemic killed more than 200,000 people in 2009, a horrifically deadly form of influenza spread like wildfire across the globe. The first case in the U.S. was reported in Kansas during March 1918. The disease spread quickly and affected people in countries around the world. It represented the first known instance of an H1N1 pandemic which would be erroneously called The Spanish Flu, though it did not actually arise…