The Emergence - Between 3 and 6 percent of the world's population died in 18 months when the flu first tried to take over the ...

Trench Fever - The flu arrived in France. It found a pleasant home in the crowded wartime trenches, much to the dismay of the Allies who tried to keep the flu a secret. When it made its way to Madrid, ...

If the upper end of that estimate is accurate, the 1918 pandemic killed more people than both World Wars put together. (Get the facts on influenza.) The first official cases of the 1918 Spanish ...

It was the worst pandemic in modern history. The 1918 influenza virus swept the globe, killing at least 50 million people worldwide. In the US, the disease devastated cities, forcing law ...

Most of the patients are influenza cases from incoming convoys.1918. Courtesy; Library of Congress Fort Riley, Kansas was a sprawling establishment housing 26,000 men and encompassing an entire ...

An electron microscope image of the CDC’s recreated 1918 Influenza virus, seen here, 18 hours after infection. Courtesy: CDC/Dr. Terrence Tumpey Despite recent advances in microbiology ...

like the Spanish flu that killed millions of people in 1918. How do these pandemic strains arise? Aa Aa Aa Although most healthy adults who contract the flu experience relatively minor symptoms ...

There is a cemetery in a small railroad town in northern Ohio where I grew up that tells a sliver of the story of the great ‘Spanish’ influenza pandemic of 1918. One section of the cemetery is ...

It is dangerous to draw too many parallels between coronavirus and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, that killed at least 50 million people around the world. Covid-19 is an entirely new disease ...