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What if, towards the end of World War II, a strain of influenza similar in virulence and mortality rates to Spanish Flu broke out? Let's say the timeframe is similar to Spanish Flu; it first breaks out around January of 1945, with the first cases reported with no wartime censorship in some neutral country, say, Argentina, giving it the name "Argentine Flu." It then infects roughly 25% of the world's population and has a 10-15% mortality rate. It lasts about two years. What I'd like to know is:
- How effective would wartime censorship be in blacking out news of this?
- What effect would this have on morale on both sides?
- Would this speed up or slow down the demise of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan?
- what effect would this have on the postwar world and the Cold War?
- Would the footing of any nation be improved (by way of being weakened less than its neighbors) in the postwar world?
- Would this pandemic, like the Spanish Flu, be "forgotten"