Have you had your flu shot yet? If not, history suggests it might be a good idea. That’s because today we think back to Sept. 16, 1918, when doctors at the Navy base reported the first documented case ...

Pandemic: It's a scary word. But the world has seen pandemics before, and worse ones, too. Consider the influenza pandemic of 1918, often referred to erroneously as the "Spanish flu." Misconceptions ...

The ‘greatest pandemic in history’ was 100 years ago – but many of us still get the basic facts wrong Richard Gunderman, The Conversation Editor's Note, March 17, 2020: This is an updated version of a ...

Pandemic: It’s a scary word. But the world has seen pandemics before, and worse ones, too. Consider the influenza pandemic of 1918, often referred to erroneously as the “Spanish flu.” Misconceptions ...

An Oct. 19 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) includes a video with the title “The good ol’ Kansas Flu.” “In 1918, 50 to 100 million people died of the Spanish Flu,” a narrator says. “A few ...

Officials base pandemic flu plans on what occurred during the deadly Spanish flu of 1918. Here’s an account of what happened in Lincoln and Nebraska: Dec. 26, 1914 Camping on the dam near Emerson, Neb ...

Introduction : the elephant in the room -- Part one: The unwalled city -- Coughs and sneezes -- The monads of Leibniz -- Part two: Anatomy of a pandemic -- Ripples on a pond -- Like a thief in the ...

Laura Spinney is a science journalist and the author of several books. Her latest non-fiction title is Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World. In the book, Spinney examines ...

Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH's Medical Collection to decode the genome of the virus responsible for the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic ...

GRAND FORKS – A movie about the Spanish flu, “Influenza 1918,” will be shown at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 9, at the Empire Arts Center, 415 DeMers. Admission is free. Presented in conjunction with the ...

A pair of lungs preserved over a century ago from a deceased Spanish flu patient has helped unravel the genetic adaptations undergone by the virus to spread across Europe during the start of the 1918 ...

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.