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It was called the Spanish flu because it was first officially noticed in Spain in May 1918. It went on to kill an estimated eight million people there and 20-40 million people worldwide. . The virus was tracked along international shipping lanes, from Europe to North America, then to Asia, Africa, Brazil and eventually the South Pacific.