This year’s flu season has been tough. But it pales in comparison to the horrors of 1918. One hundred years ago, the United States was swept into a global influenza epidemic that one source called ...

Emiel "Bud" Belzer of Rapid City was only six years old when his uncle caught the Spanish flu. Almost 91 years later, Belzer still remembers the smell of his farmhouse near De Smet the only time they ...

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 ...

Scientists were able to identify the antibodies that still circulate in the blood of survivors of the deadly 1918 flu outbreak and found that they still proved to be a potent antidote to the disease.

A group of Middlesex County historians may have just uncovered a bit of the state’s lost history. In South River’s Washington Monumental Cemetery there is an open field with no grave markers. For ...

A scientist harvests H7N9 virus growing in bird eggs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received samples of the virus from China. — James Gathany/CDC/Douglas E. Jordan / (CC0 1.0) A ...

Camp Pike, 1918: The main base hospital complex covered some 20-acres to serve the many thousands of enlisted men and the 1,500 commissioned officers at the base training for World War I. The “bright ...