PBS4y
Worldwide flu pandemic strikes
And as the summer of 1918 turned to fall, the epidemic lost its mildness: people started to die. The influenza commonly called "Spanish flu" killed more people than the guns of World War I.
Connecticut College Arboretum4y
The Spanish Flu
CC: The Spanish Flu was the last pandemic. How does it compare to the COVID-19 outbreak? MZ: The 1918 flu pandemic haunts all epidemiologists. It’s estimated that between 50 million and 100 million ...
EurekAlert!1mon
ETSU research explores Spanish flu’s impact on Appalachia
One family in Bristol, Tennessee, lost four daughters – all between the ages of 18 months and 14 years – during the Spanish influenza ... health care access, poor working conditions and ...
scmp.com5y
From the Black Death to Spanish flu and smallpox, a brief history of plagues
Once the swellings burst, people had a fever, vomited blood, and soon died. After the devastation of the first world war came the Spanish flu. It did not actually come from Spain, but this was ...
GMA Network27d
‘Doctor of the poor’ becomes Venezuela’s first saint
He was beatified—an earlier step towards sainthood—in 2021 amid a surge of coronavirus cases in Venezuela, a century after Hernandez became known as the "doctor of the poor" caring for patients during ...
The Maui News4y
From the plague to Spanish flu:
Over 1,200 Spanish flu deaths in Hawaii were members of striking families. In March, a resident physician of Ualapue, Molokai, reported that people were flocking to Molokai to escape from the flu ...