AHC regarding the First World War and the Spanish Flu

Is there a way to get the First World War to last long enough so that the Spanish flu epidemic would be breaking out across the world simultaneous with heavy fighting in Europe? IOTL, operations were winding down as the flu began to spread, so what I'm looking for is continued heavy actions and hostilities occurring concurrent with spikes in the number of infected individuals. I imagine it'd be sort of tricky, as to prolong the war, you might need to delay US entry, while the flu itself might've originated in the American Midwest (that's a big "might have" since data and records are too sketchy for scholars to pin down the exact geographical origin of the virus).
 
The other thing I was thinking was to maybe have the Germans discover the Haber Process a few years earlier. By the time they came up with it IOTL, I think the course of the war was pretty much set, but maybe an additional year or two of replenished nitrate stockpiles would do something for their war effort.
 
Heavy fighting may prevented the flu from croasing battefields. Best to try going through neutrals. Maybe give it to Lenin and have it spread through eastern Europe and across the Trans Siberian Railway.
 

BlondieBC

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Keeping the Americans out is absolutely necessary for a longer war.

You can do it other ways.

1) Italy works fine, but you have a much different war.

2) Romania staying out (make Brusilov offensive not work so well) gives the CP one million tons more food per year in 1917 and 1918 and 1919, and also give the Germans a chance to do another offensive in 1917, likely against Russia.

3) USA wanted to have better trained and equipped army. Just have Wilson decide to ignore the Entente pleas, and refuse to send over anything after the first Division that does not have full TOE and full train up.

There are a lot of other combinations that get you a longer war, but they are more subtle in their interactions. It is easy to get war in 1919. Each year after this becomes harder.
 
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