“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 ...

In this 1918 photo made available by the Library of Congress, volunteer nurses from the American Red Cross tend to influenza patients in the Oakland Municipal Auditorium, used as a temporary hospital.

Medical men wearing masks at a US Army hospital in Fort Porter, N.Y., during the 1918-19 “Spanish” Influenza pandemic. (Everett Collection) EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at ...

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) ...

Penn State Altoona professor John Eicher shows a map of his data from his research into the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic in Europe. Eicher and his research team say their work has become more meaningful ...

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 ...

This month, COVID-19 officially became the deadliest outbreak of infectious disease in American history, eclipsing the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic that killed 675,000 Americans over two years. This grim ...