From an email from filmmaker Garrett Scott, who premiered his smart, sometimes surreal but always penetrating doc on a U.S. Army unit deployed in Fallujah, Occupation: Dreamland (pictured) in Rotterdam, where I got snagged in my hotel room with the Sundance flu for a couple of days:

"It is widely believed that the deadly global Influenza epidemic of 1918 spread across the U.S. so rapidly because of mass troop mobilization for the First World War. No one realized what sort of by product would arise from moving all those bodies into closely compressed camps. Then, move them by train to the next camp and you are moving tons of incubators all across the globe. The festival circuit can't be much different. Get out of the vector, my friend!"

# posted by Scott Macaulay @ 2/08/2005 08:18:00 PM

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yes it was caused by world war one, and millions died,
# posted by  Anonymous @ 5/27/2005 2:12 PM  

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