Have you had your flu shot yet? If not, history suggests it might be a good idea. That’s because today we think back to Sept. 16, 1918, when doctors at the Navy base reported the first documented case ...

CNN — Pandemic: It's a scary word. But the world has seen pandemics before, and worse ones, too. Consider the influenza pandemic of 1918, often referred to erroneously as the "Spanish flu." ...

The Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 to 1920 was one of the deadliest events in human history. It spread rapidly across the world during the final year of World War I. Unlike most flu viruses, it killed ...

The influenza ward at Walter Reed Hospital during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 Library of Congress The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 reached just about every continent throughout the globe.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - As World War I raged on, the City of Charleston was battling a fast increase in Spanish Flu cases on Oct. 6, 1918. The first case of the infection was discovered at an Army ...

Introduction : the elephant in the room -- Part one: The unwalled city -- Coughs and sneezes -- The monads of Leibniz -- Part two: Anatomy of a pandemic -- Ripples on a pond -- Like a thief in the ...

The preserved lung of an 18-year-old Swiss man has been used to create the full genome of the 1918 "Spanish flu," the first complete influenza A genome with a precise date from Europe. It offers new ...

The Spanish flu of 1918 and 1919 became a worldwide pandemic that consumed the lives of many a young person beginning to find their footing in the world. Arthur E. Thompson, a native of Cole County, ...

CHARLESTON -- Eastern Illinois University Professor Sheila Simons recently outlined some issues with the flu for the Charleston Rotary Club. According to a press release, Simons, a professor in EIU’s ...

PHILADELPHIA — At Sunday family dinners, the grandchildren would beg to hear that story again, the one about her twins in the baby carriage, and one of them was dead, and what did she do. This was ...

(AP) — COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did — approximately 675,000. And like the worldwide scourge of a century ago, the coronavirus may never ...