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To learn more about our privacy policy Click hereAgriculture pandemics and zoonotic diseases so in in January of 1918 through April of not 2019 that's an error there 1919 the Spanish flu affected the Americas and it really became a pandemic the origin is unknown however there's several different theories that exist on how the how influenza originated at that and and probably the most well accepted is that it started in Kansas where there was a high population of hog farmers that also lied within in that farming area there was a bird migratory pattern and so at that time it was proposed that there because of the hogs and the the birds the native birds that there probably could have been a zoonotic disease could have been kind of spread so it when in Kansas it was proposed that it