Al Blaschke went skydiving for the first time in 2017 on his 100th birthday. Al Blaschke has survived the coronavirus, the Great Depression and the Spanish flu. Now, at 103 years old, he's become the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. ST. LOUIS - In October 1918, the meat grinder known as World War I was lurching to its exhausted conclusion in the Argonne forest ...