Claim: The Spanish Flu wasn't a flu virus, it was a bacteria that caused severe and lethal pneumonia.
Fact-check: Spanish Flu pandemic wasn't caused by a meningitis vaccine - Full Fact
Verdict: the 1918 flu pandemic, also known as spanish flu, was caused by the influenza a h1n1 virus. there is evidence that many of the people who died in the pandemic may have had an additional bacterial pneumonia.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Daniella De Block Golding
Date published: 2022-01-28T00:00:00