(What is the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic?) The Spanish flu strain killed its victims with a swiftness never seen before. In the United States stories abounded of people waking up ...

Spanish flu victims crowd into an emergency hospital at Camp Funston, a subdivision of Fort Riley. Most historical accounts say the flu, which killed about 600,000 Americans and millions worldwide ...

Pvt. Albert Gitchell was sick. For this there was no doubt. When he reported to the camp infirmary on the morning of March 11, 1918, he lamented that he was feeling hot and achy. The medic on duty ...

After that, victims eventually suffocated. No one knows where the Spanish flu started, but recent studies show that the virus may have emerged when strains of pig and human flu infected the same ...

The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic was caused by a particularly virulent strain of influenza virus. It infected 500 million people ...

Research Ninety years after the 1918 flu pandemic claimed the last of its approximately 50 million victims, antibodies to the virus live on in people exposed to it as children -- and the pandemic ...

Specifically, in 1997, both frozen and formalin-fixed lung tissue from Spanish flu victims was used to extract nucleic acid and sequence the 1918 influenza genome (Tautenberger et al., 1997).

This article was first published Nov. 2, 2005. The disease didn’t discriminate. It took the lives of Chaska baker Mathias Buesgens, 25, and Chanhassen farmer Reinhard Molnau, 32, and a young ...

Tributes have been paid to a 108-year-old woman who lived through the Spanish flu pandemic but has died after contracting coronavirus. Hilda Churchill died at Kenyon Lodge care home in Salford on ...