But our flu-blindness has persisted, long before the Spanish influenza extinguished itself. The next pandemic, which admittedly killed only 1.1 million people, cropped up in 1957.

We have just commemorated the centenary of the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918, which lasted only a few months but claimed 50 million to 100 million lives worldwide, including 675,000 in the United States.

When the Spanish flu hit, scientists barely knew what viruses were. The first microscope capable of even seeing them wasn't built until the 1930s, ...

The 1918 "Spanish Flu" epidemic changed the world and shows the frightening aftermath of a global disease. News. ... Medicine was crude and the electron microscope had not yet been invented, ...

Spanish flu and COVID-19 are both infectious respiratory illnesses, which share some symptoms. Both the infections cause fever, coughing, and sometimes, body aches.

They commemorated his life in a Sept. 28, 2019, march in Philadelphia to honor the city’s Spanish Flu victims — a parade Karen Zeitz also took part in. A few months later, word of a new virus ...

In 1918, the world was a very different place, even without the disruptive influence of World War I. Doctors knew viruses existed but had never seen one — there were no electron microscopes, and ...

In 1918, an influenza virus known as the Spanish flu killed over 50 million people all over the world, making it the deadliest pandemic in modern history. Skip to main content.

“The Spanish flu,” Laura Spinney tells us, “infected one in three people on earth, or 500 million human beings. Between the first case recorded on 4 March 1918 and the last sometime in March ...

Tucsonans — then numbering about 20,000 people living in a dusty desert town — started to die in the spring of 1918 from a devastating flu.