This infectious disease is not the "common cold: " its high fever can affect the entire body and sometimes cause death, as was the case in the global pandemic of 1919.

Your answer would be Influenza.

During the year of 1919, there was a global pandemic of a diseased called Infleunza, in other words, it's like a flu, but deadly. A pandemic is when there is an epidemic of a disease that has spread across a large region, in this case, this disease became global. This disease caused people to get sick, die, and pass it on to other people. It started spreading all across the world and most people were getting sick from it, it was a very dangerous time.

no one really purchased it themselves, it was all america, they had debates etc.