The original 18 footers which raced from the 1890s to the mid-1930s at a time often referred to as the ‘Big Boat Era’ ...

Trevor Grundy revisits the pandemic that killed between 30 to 50m people at the end of WW1 London - The rise of antibiotic ... This is a shocking but timely reminder of a pandemic known as the Spanish ...

Kennedy Jr. falsely claiming that vaccines caused the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic known as the Spanish flu. One Facebook post (archived) with around 105,000 reactions at the time of this writing ...

Kennedy Jr. falsely claiming that vaccines caused the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic known as the Spanish flu. One Facebook post (archived) with around 105,000 reactions at the time of this writing ...

Kennedy Jr. said he had read "articles" and "evidence" linking the start of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic, known as the Spanish flu, to vaccine research. Kennedy described these articles as "strong ...

In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately. Young, old, sick and otherwise-healthy people all became infected — at ...

Jamestown had its first casualty of the Spanish-American War in April 1899: Lt. Dorman Baldwin, of Company H. North Dakota Volunteers received what was described as a serious wound to the leg in an ...

The Spanish Civil War was a conflict that pitted the Republican government against Spanish Nationalists led by General Francisco Franco from 1936-1939. Families were torn apart as people took sides.

Hence it became known as “Spanish flu.” By June influenza reached from Algeria to New Zealand. Still, a 1927 study concluded, “In many parts of the world the first wave either was so faint ...

Avian influenza infections in the US have been rising over the past year, but there’s no evidence so far that people can infect each other with this strain of the virus.