“Little Souls” by Sandra Dallas is a wonderful read about the Spanish influenza. The story is set in Colorado in the early 1900s. People were afraid to go to restaurants or church for fear of getting ...

1. The absorbing opening pages of this important book are not about the so-called Spanish Flu of 1918, which may have originated in Kansas, but the sorry state of medicine and medical education in the ...

Red Cross volunteers fight the Spanish Flu pandemic in the United States in 1918. (APIC / Getty Images) The new disease, public officials said as people began to fall ill with unfamiliar symptoms, was ...

Deaths related to COVID-19 in the U.S. have reached 676,000, surpassing the number that died during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918. Until now, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...

EUGENE, OR -- A 103-year-old Oregon woman is fearlessly taking on her second pandemic. Bernice Homan recently received her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. She lived through the 1918 flu pandemic, ...

Covid-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did — approximately 675,000. The U.S. population a century ago was just one-third of what it is today, meaning the ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — More South Dakotans have died from the coronavirus than of the Spanish Flu, according to the South Dakota Historical Society. The Spanish flu killed 1,847 people in South Dakota ...

CHICAGO — Government scientists reported Monday they have created a vaccine against the catastrophic "Spanish flu" virus of 1918-1919, raising hopes that a remedy could be developed if a modern strain ...