In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately.

The second wave of this pandemic hit Americans hard, and the disease would go on to kill up to 100 million people globally ...

The Spanish Influenza outbreak in the final stages of World War I a century ago produced the most lethal flu pandemic in ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Historian Nancy Bristow talked about the 1918 influenza pandemic and how it devastated American communities and soldiers during World War I. She ...

Plague fears sparked by a suspected Siberian lab-linked pneumonic outbreak and 200-person quarantine have reignited interest ...

The records show that fully one-third of the global population was infected by the Spanish Flu, and the virus killed an ...

Viral claims appearing on social media say that Dr. Anthony Fauci published a study in 2008 linking mask usage during the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak to deadly cases of bacterial pneumonia. One post ...

On Oct. 5, 1918, the city health department issued this warning: “Avoid persons with colds.” Dr. Max C. Starkloff, health commissioner, knew that wasn’t nearly enough. Two days later, with Mayor Henry ...

Long before scientists could identify bacteria or sequence viruses, infectious diseases traveled with soldiers, ...