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It is, and it strongly supports the interpretation that it was a return of a previously circulating version of influenza A, i.e. H1, which was active after 1847 but died out gradually - it would have died out in remote places years or decades before bigger countries. Ethnic trends in non-remote places are more ambiguous, so there were certainly other confounders; but overall a mountain of evidence that puts "soldier vaxxes" in fantasy territory.

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