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 .

“Spanish flu” spreads through contact or close proximity to infected persons. Over the next year, 550,000 Americans died from the disease and more than 20 million people worldwide. #WW1 pic ...

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

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 ...

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." ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

"COVID-19 and 1918 H1N1, the Spanish flu, kind of belong in the same conversation," Faust, who is also an instructor at Harvard Medical School, explained. "And the next six months are going to ...

The Spanish flu pandemic killed 50 million people worldwide, but acts of God are less memorable than wars and other disasters caused by humans. A Red Cross worker demonstrates face mask use, ca. 1918.

Oct. 7—GRAND FORKS — A movie about the Spanish flu, "Influenza 1918," will be shown at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 9, at the Empire Arts Center, 415 DeMers. Admission is free. Presented in ...