In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately. Young, old, sick and otherwise-healthy people all became infected ...

A sliver of the tissue – taken from the lungs of an 18-year-old German soldier who died of Spanish flu – has been prepared on a slide, and slipped under the gaze of an ultra-modern microscope.

"I read an article on the Spanish Flu at the start of COVID, and what happened back when the Spanish Flu occurred in 1919 is the then-conservative government put up a border with the east, and it ...

The Spanish Flu 08/09/2022 April 1918. As Europe plunged into WWI, an extremely virulent flu swept across every continent.

Though the disease is erroneously called the Spanish flu, it first appeared at a U.S. Army base in Kansas, where more than 56,000 soldiers were destined for the trenches of World War I.

Though it took until the 1930s, the Spanish flu was eventually ID’d correctly (as were two other influenza pandemics, in 1957 and 1968) under microscopes. The absence of pathogenic coronaviruses ...

The 1918 H1N1 influenza pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu, was the most severe pandemic in modern history. About 675,000 deaths were reported in the United States.

Deaths related to COVID-19 in the U.S. have reached 676,000, surpassing the number that died during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918. Until now, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ...

The first casualty of war is truth. And in 1918, as World War I raged, truth was in short supply, most singularly when it came to the "Spanish Flu" pandemic, which claimed the lives of 675,000 ...