The Spanish Flu, as the virus is now known, made its way around the world mindless of human politics, borders and morality, infecting soldiers and civilians, rich and poor alike. Its spread was so ...

There is a cemetery in a small railroad town in northern Ohio where I grew up that tells a sliver of the story of the great ‘Spanish’ influenza pandemic of 1918. One section of the cemetery is ...

the Spanish flu had a very high mortality rate for young healthy people. The outbreak was first detected in the US military during WWI, and there were approximately 675,000 deaths in the US alone.

PhotoQuest Spanish flu affected up to 40% of the US Army and Navy, many of whom were sent to Ireland during WW1 (Colorado hospital) By late June, the Irish News reported that thousands of Belfast ...

Starting in central and southern France, close to WWI battlefields and army camps ... in the family to turn 100 in May. Surviving Spanish flu was not Mr Ameal's last brush with misfortune.

Said Doane: “It would be quite easy for one of these German agents to turn loose Spanish influenza germs in a theater or some other place where large numbers of persons are assembled.

WWI saw massive levels of destruction ... played out through proxy wars in countries like Vietnam. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-1919 was the deadliest in world history. Around 500 million ...

More info A Donegal woman celebrated her 109th birthday and recalled how she survived two World Wars and only drank once – due to Spanish flu in 1918. Ruby Druce, who was born in 1915 and is ...