A strange disease arrived the shores of Lagos, capital of the colony and protectorate of Nigeria, on the 14th of September 1918. It was a disease such as nobody had ever seen before. It came through the sea, travelling on the Atlantic Ocean. The first arrivals who showed the tell-tale signs
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