Red Cross volunteers fight the Spanish Flu pandemic in the United States in 1918. (APIC / Getty Images) This article appears in the January 11/18, 2021 issue .

View of victims of the Spanish flu cases as they lie in beads at a barracks hospital on the campus ... More of Colorado Agricultural College, Fort Collins, Colorado, 1918.

The Spanish flu in 1918 paused traditional campaigning but the elections went on as planned. Latest U.S.

By 1919, one year later, the so-called Spanish flu had spread around the world, killing an estimated 50 million people, with more than 500,000 dead in the U.S. (That included 195,000 just in the ...

Philadelphia society matron, Mrs. JL Ackerson, as she acts as a chauffeur for Fleet Hospital during the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic. PhotoQuest/Getty Images ...

The hospital cared for many patients during the Spanish Flu epidemic in 1918-19. The hospital, built in 1907 to replace one that was destroyed in the 1896 tornado. The city closed it in 1985, and ...

10 Misconceptions About the 1918 'Spanish Flu' In the pandemic of 1918, between 50 and 100 million people are thought to have died, representing as much as 5% of the world’s population.

That same day, Oct. 9, 1918, the reported cases of the flu epidemic — it had not yet been declared a global pandemic — topped 1,200 in Albany in a 24-hour period and the number of those ...

One hundred years ago. the influenza pandemic of 1918, also known as the Spanish flu, infected 500 million people worldwide. It has been called the "greatest medical holocaust in history." ...

The “Spanish flu” pandemic, the subject of a new, ongoing exhibit at the Mütter Museum, ... An emergency hospital during the influenza epidemic at Camp Funston in Kansas, circa 1918.

The flu arrived as a great war raged in Europe, a conflict that would leave about 20 million people dead over four years. In 1918, the flu would kill more than twice that number – and perhaps ...

The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 is believed to have infected about a third of the world's population. ... many of whom were sent to Ireland during WW1 (Colorado hospital) ...