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 ...

In 1918, newspapers in Lincoln and worldwide were dominated by World War I stories. In late 1917 and early 1918, a new strain of influenza was born, possibly in China. In May 1918, a reported 8 ...

John Barry, the author of The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History, talks about the lessons we can learn from the 1918... The Great Influenza: Lessons To Learn From The ...

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The school's normal schedule will resume Wednesday, — -- The halls of an all-boys Catholic high school in Chicago were barren on Monday. That's because administrators at Saint Patrick High School ...

*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 ...

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 ...

Scientists in Switzerland have cracked open a century-old viral mystery by decoding the genome of the 1918 influenza virus from a preserved Zurich patient. This ancient RNA revealed that the virus had ...