A university professor and two students recreated a virus identical to the one that caused the devastating 1918 Spanish Flu ...
The Spanish flu strain killed its victims with a swiftness ... and conducting individual funerals became impossible. Many of the dead ended up in mass graves. The end of 1918 brought a hiatus ...
"So many dead," recalls Mr Ameal, now aged 103, of what he saw that autumn of 1918, when he caught the virus known around the world as Spanish flu - a pandemic that is thought to have killed at ...
Yet, Spanish Flu, or 1918 H1N1 as it is officially known, isn't "dead." However, because of the supply of antivirals and the flu vaccine, the Spanish Flu is unlikely to be the cause of another ...
Rhondda Leader Weekly newspaper columns described sudden flu deaths, while lists of war dead were still being ... of people have never heard about the Spanish 'flu. I only know because my mother ...
The three sub-heads below it laid out the thumbnail details of a man’s demise in the chilly prose of an obituary writer. The first addressed the cause. Joe Hall’s death was the last awful ...
owing in part to the depletion of their employee ranks due to flu. On October 19, 1918, Dr. C. Y. White announced that he had developed a vaccine that would prevent Spanish influenza. In short ...