"The mortality rate is lower with swine flu, but it seems to be cropping up in a lot more different places." See photos of the outbreak in Mexico » Previous influenza pandemics have been deadly.

It's been dubbed "the forgotten pandemic" — possibly because it coincided with some of the most momentous events in world ...

An exhibit opening this week at the Clarke County Historical Association (CCHA) chronicles how the community coped with the ...

COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did — approximately 675,000. The U.S. population a century ago was just one-third of what it is today, meaning the ...

Schuylkill County families faced two wars in 1918 — one in Europe, the other at home. The Pottsville Republican and other newspapers ran lists of county residents who died in World War I in France and ...

The United States coronavirus death toll eclipsed the 100,000 milestone on May 27 and, as of early June, is nearing a figure that few may have expected or feared at the start of the novel coronavirus ...

Officials base pandemic flu plans on what occurred during the deadly Spanish flu of 1918. Here’s an account of what happened in Lincoln and Nebraska: Dec. 26, 1914 Camping on the dam near Emerson, Neb ...

Global deaths from COVID-19 now stand at more than 4.6 million. The Spanish flu death toll numbers are rough guesses, given the incomplete records of the era and the poor scientific understanding of ...