to the deadly Spanish Flu of 1918 that killed an estimated 20-50 million people. It was March of 1918, nearly a century ago today. America was gearing up for war in Europe, a war so ghastly it was ...

The outbreak of this influenza virus, also known as Spanish flu, spread with ... United States had been at war with Germany and the Central Powers for 11 months. During that time America’s ...

It became known as Spanish Flu. Spain was neutral during the war. Newspapers in Spain were not restricted in what they could report. This meant they reported the deadly pandemic in detail whereas ...

As the world’s most infamous flu pandemic (often referred to as the Spanish flu) raged from 1918–1920, scientists had very few tools available to help them combat or understand the disease.

The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic was caused by a particularly virulent ... The influenza vaccine was tested for safety and ...

That was brought home vividly by a fascinating, and terrifying, real-world experiment by an MIT professor and two of his students who re-created a virus identical to the one that caused the ...

One family in Bristol, Tennessee, lost four daughters — all between the ages of 18 months and 14 years — during the Spanish ...

How the refusal to ban large public gatherings during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic led to disaster. Here's everything you need to know: America was in the waning months of World War I ...