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.

Lessons learnt from Spanish flu Announcing details of the review on Thursday, Premier Mark McGowan shared an anecdote from the early days of the pandemic. When Spanish flu hit Australia's shores ...

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

A misunderstanding about the microbe that actually causes the flu created a ripple effect that changed the future of U.S. drug development, clinical trials, and pandemic preparedness.

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 ...

About 675,000 people died in the United States during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and many of those public health lessons can apply to the current COVID-19 pandemic.

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 ...

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 ...