1919

As time entered 1919, the daily number of flu infections and deaths across European nations finally declined to some extent.

After all, governments everywhere had seen the tremendous harm caused by the flu. Even the most sluggish governments should have understood the importance of preventing it.

Although the flu was still spreading across the globe, compared with its peak in the latter half of 1918, it had begun to decline by early 1919.

By now, throughout Europe and indeed countries around the world, this flu had been uniformly named the American Great Flu, thoroughly altering history.

Although the League of Nations investigative delegation had cleared the United States of blame, determining that the flu had not been caused by a leak from an American Chemical Plant but was a naturally occurring influenza outbreak.

Such an explanation could not possibly convince everyone. A considerable number of people still believed that the United States had had a hand in the flu behind the scenes.

Otherwise, how could the US Government possibly have been kind enough to provide European nations with a massive interest-free loan? If one were to name the country ravaged most severely by the flu, the United States would definitely rank among the foremost.

Yet under such circumstances, the United States had actually been able to offer other countries an interest-free loan of as much as one billion dollars. To say there had been no secret deal involved was absolutely impossible.

The US Government's reputation had also plummeted because of the flu. Coupled with racial conflicts and mass demonstrations erupting within the United States, the number of immigrants choosing to go there had fallen sharply since 1918, to less than half of previous years' figures.

Of the immigrants who gave up on going to the United States, a large portion