Kennedy Jr. falsely claiming that vaccines caused the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic known as the Spanish flu. One Facebook post (archived) with around 105,000 reactions at the time of this writing ...

(What is the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic?) The Spanish flu strain killed its victims with a swiftness never seen before. In the United States stories abounded of people waking up ...

Between 1918 and 1919, the Spanish Flu killed at least 50 million people worldwide, with at least 675,000 of those deaths reported in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Contro ...

Specifically, in 1997, both frozen and formalin-fixed lung tissue from Spanish flu victims was used to extract nucleic acid and sequence the 1918 influenza genome (Tautenberger et al., 1997).

The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic was caused by a particularly virulent strain of influenza virus. It infected 500 million people ...

After that, victims eventually suffocated. No one knows where the Spanish flu started, but recent studies show that the virus may have emerged when strains of pig and human flu infected the same ...

The influenza commonly called "Spanish flu" killed more people than the guns ... except that it was contagious. After deaths from the disease began in earnest, many local governing bodies closed ...

"Bacterial Pneumonia Caused Most Deaths in 1918 Influenza Pandemic ... Trial at a U.S. Military Camp Did Not Cause the 1918 Spanish Flu." Reuters, 13 Apr. 2021. www.reuters.com, https ...