In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately.

The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 killed more people than World War I, with estimates ranging from 20 to 50 million deaths around the globe. When it arrived in the United States in early 1918, it ...

Michael Osterholm, University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy director, was driving to the ...

Editor’s note: This story concludes a two-day series begun Sunday on the local impact of the 1918 Spanish flu outbreak that killed hundreds in southwest Montana and millions worldwide. ANACONDA — By ...

When the 1925 Serum Run to Nome is recalled, they almost always think of sled dogs cutting across frozen Alaskan wilderness, ...

British-born teen Carlo Acutis, who died of leukaemia aged 15, has been canonised by Pope Leo XIV. But he’s not the youngest person to be honoured by the church ...

For centuries, doctors and scientists have agreed that germs are the underlying cause of infectious diseases. Someone coughs ...

“The story of the development of the vaccines for Influenza A is not … a pitched battle, but a long campaign — the slow, bit-by-bit accumulation of data in which one doctor builds upon the laboratory ...

The New Bethlehem Presbyterian Church will celebrate 175 years as a community landmark with a special service and brunch ...

1864 – Prospector “Seven-Up Pete” McMahon names Silver Bow Creek. 1866 – Residents of Butte City attempt to form a miners’ union. 1870 – The Emma Mine has a new foreman – Marcus Daly, who later would ...

Two page paper pamphlet, stapled, with red cover. Dated 28th October, 1918. In his pamphlet, "The Unburied Dead," Guy Beckley Stearns, M.D., discusses homeopathic remedies employed in the influenza ...

Every occupation has its routine activities including firefighting. Historically, however, the latter profession has provided ...