The Spanish flu strain killed its victims with a swiftness ... the international conflict then in its last phase. Epidemiologists still dispute the exact origins of the virus, but there is some ...

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 — at ...

A university professor and two students recreated a virus identical to the one that caused the devastating 1918 Spanish Flu ...