When young, healthy soldiers began getting sick by the dozens in March, 1918, military physicians were baffled by what might be causing it. Courtesy: NARA At Fort Riley, Kansas, an Army private ...

Part I: An abrupt introduction to Spanish influenza -- The great shadow -- Part 2: Spanish influenza: The first wave--spring and summer, 1918 -- The advance of the influenza virus -- Three explosions- ...

Although researchers continue to debate the exact location where the pandemic began, there is no credible evidence that anything other than H1N1, a type of influenza A virus, was responsible for it.

Men dig a mass trench grave for the victims. Courtesy: NARA Officials in Philadelphia knew what was coming their way. All through September 1918 they had seen reports coming out of Boston of a ...

The Spanish influenza pandemic hit the United States hard in the fall of 1918. The pandemic caused cities to shut down and shops to close. The city leaders in Cape Girardeau ordered public gatherings ...

A university professor and two students recreated a virus identical to the one that caused the devastating 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. If they can do it, so can terrorists. “The Terrorism Warning ...

The Covid “pandemic’ was nothing compared to the greatest killer of humanity, The Black Death of the 14th century, and the next in line, the Spanish Influenza, also called the Spanish Flu of 1918-1920 ...

As we commemorate the fifth anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring the novel coronavirus a pandemic, this is the fourth column of a six-part MSNBC Daily series that reflects on the ...

For years, internet users have shared a rumor about U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. falsely claiming that vaccines caused the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic known as the Spanish flu. One ...