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.

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, ...

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.

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

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, ...

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 ...

The 2009 H1N1 flu virus viewed under the microscope. ... The 1918 flu is widely known as the Spanish Flu, but new research establishes that the flu actually originated in the Western Hemisphere.

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.