From its appearance in September 1918 until the WWI Armistice, Spanish flu infected about 40 percent of U.S. Army and Navy personnel. When influenza hit Vancouver Barracks, Col. R. G. Ebert was one of ...

Alaska is still considered the last frontier, even in today's modern times. The unforgiving and extreme weather, coupled with the rough terrain, makes it a challenging place to live. More than 100 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The early fall of 1918 brought the deadly Spanish influenza to Baltimore — our other, earlier pandemic. The death toll, often ...

For more than a century, the 1918 flu held that grim distinction. Here’s what made that outbreak so devastating. White flags on the National Mall mark each of the more than 675,000 lives lost to COVID ...

This post originally ran on July 13, 2020. It is rerunning now as COVID-19 surpasses the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic as the deadliest in U.S. history. The Spanish flu claimed an estimated 675,000 ...

The early fall of 1918 brought the deadly Spanish influenza to Baltimore — our other, earlier pandemic. The death toll, often affecting people in their 20s and 30s, was devastating. But public ...