An influenza pandemic of the type that ravaged the globe in 1918 and 1919 would kill about 62 million people today, with 96 percent of the deaths occurring in developing countries. That is the ...

Enemas, bloodletting, and whiskey : treating the flu -- The jolly rant : a history of the virus -- "Something fierce" : the Spanish flu of 1918 -- "Am I gonna die?" : round two, and three, and four ..

Introduction: An ill wind -- A victim and a survivor -- "Knock me down" fever -- The killer without a name -- The invisible enemy -- One deadly summer -- Know thy enemy -- The fangs of death -- Like ...

Vol. 125, Supplement 3: The 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic in the United States (APRIL 2010), pp. 71-79 (9 pages) Published By: Sage Publications, Inc. New York City approached the 1918 influenza ...

No one wants to open a scientific Pandora's box and risk unleashing a form of bioterrorism, but the opportunity to glean information from the cause of the 1918 influenza virus was just too great to ...

PHILADELPHIA — At Sunday family dinners, the grandchildren would beg to hear that story again, the one about her twins in the baby carriage, and one of them was dead, and what did she do. This was ...