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In the spring of 1918 a strange influenca was reported.  It was noted that World War I soldiers serving in the West Front were getting sick with some kind of an influenca that included high fever that often was followed with pneumonia.  This was before penicillin was in use which made it a real hardship for its victims.  This sickness started in the US, that spread fast to the rest of the world.  In the early summer of 1918 it hit Spain, and since the King of Spain was the first one to die in Spain, it was from then on called the Spanish sickness or in Norwegian "Spanskesyken"  or "Spanska".  By 1919 the sickness had spread to most of the world.  A total of about 27 millions world wide died from this epidemic in 1918 and 1919.  Only 13,700 were reported to have died in World War I.