The 1918 Spanish influenza is often billed as the “forgotten flu.” But really, what flu isn’t forgotten?

The differences between the global response to the Great Flu Pandemic and today’s COVID-19 outbreak could not be more striking.

A few short years later, scientists had the electron microscope that eventually helped scientists prove the flu was from a virus, not from bacteria as originally thought.

For the economy, the effects of the 1918 flu, despite factory closings and social disruptions, were hard to disentangle from the profound ones of World War I.

Viruses under the super microscope: How influenza viruses communicate with cells New mechanisms for influenza viruses to enter cells uncovered Date: May 7, 2025 Source: Helmholtz Centre for ...

There are a number of disturbing parallels between the coronavirus COVID-19 and the Spanish flu — and leaders seem to have ignored lessons from the past.

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 horrors of 1918: What the Spanish Flu can teach us about COVID-19 MIKE WERESCHAGIN and BRAD BUMSTED of The Caucus Mar 24, 2020 7 min to read ...

Pandemics reverberate for generations, altering society, medicine and history in ways never considered. The 1918 "Spanish Flu" epidemic changed the world and shows the frightening aftermath of a ...

Template for Tokyo Olympics set a century ago in Belgium, after the Spanish Flu ravaged the world. But there was no vaccine then and Europe was still recovering from World War I.

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.

“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 ...