Since early 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic raged both across the U.S. and the world, various photographs of masks worn during the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic were shared online, as we noted with ...

Mask orders were part of the last pandemic - the Spanish Flu outbreak in 1918. The first cases of the Spanish Flu showed up in March 1918 in Kansas. The New York Times looked at the timeline of the ...

With a few exemptions, travelers on public airlines, trains, metros and buses can face fines between $500 and $3,000 for refusing to wear a mask properly. Such mandates have generated intense ...

KEARNEY — Medicine has changed a lot in 103 years, but not human nature. So says Larry Hardesty, retired dean of the Calvin T. Ryan Library at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. He has compared ...

Pandemics reverberate for generations, altering society, medicine and history in ways never considered. The 1918 "Spanish Flu" epidemic changed the world and shows the frightening aftermath of a ...

One of the major stories of the past year was the concern over the flu and the shortage of flu vaccine. That brings up memories of the terrible influenza epidemic of 1918 which killed thousands, ...

As World War One ends the dying takes on new proportions when the Spanish Flu ravages the world. A whole generation of young ...

Deaths related to COVID-19 in the U.S. have reached 676,000, surpassing the number that died during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918. Until now, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...

“Little Souls” by Sandra Dallas is a wonderful read about the Spanish influenza. The story is set in Colorado in the early 1900s. People were afraid to go to restaurants or church for fear of getting ...