Patrick Boyer talks about the so-called "Spanish Flu," pointing out that it did not arise in Spain at all, but in China. It was brought to Europe by Chinese workers and spread rapidly among the troops in trenches, where the warring states did not want to disclose anything about their armies' medical problems. The sick soldiers brought the virus back to Canada, and the government still downplayed the severity of the epidemic, which allowed time for it to spread. In the end it had killed around as many people as World War I, though we hear much less about it.