The flu arrived as a great war raged in Europe, a conflict that would leave about 20 million people dead over four years. In 1918, the flu would kill more than twice that number – and perhaps ...

The flu arrived as a great war raged in Europe, a conflict that would leave about 20 million people dead over four years. In 1918, the flu would kill more than twice that number — and perhaps ...

The flu pandemic seemed to affect young people in particular, for reasons that historians and scientists are still debating. When the first recorded cases arrived, World War I was raging, and the ...

By 1919, one year later, the so-called Spanish flu had spread around the world, killing an estimated 50 million people, with more than 500,000 dead in the U.S. (That included 195,000 just in the ...

What The 1918 Flu Can Teach Us About Handling Today's Pandemic. May 15, 2020 5:00 AM ET. By . Pranav Baskar , Emily Kwong ... By the end of its spread, tens of millions were dead.

By the next morning, he added, “the dead bodies are stacked about the ward like cord wood. ... Dr. Palese said there was a reasonable explanation for the W-shaped mortality curve of the 1918 flu.

Camp Funston in Kansas is often cited as the site of the first well-documented outbreak of 1918 flu in humans. It was also a major staging ground for military horses.

Among them is Geoffrey Rice, 73, a professor in New Zealand who has written several books about the devastating impact the 1918 flu had on his country, which left 9,100 dead out of a population of ...

The 1918 flu killed 50 million people — about one-fifth of the world's population at the time. Giacopini was hospitalized in September and died at 105, her daughter, Dorene, told the AP.

By L.S. THE FLU pandemic that was first noted in 1918 was probably the worst catastrophe of the 20th century, if not of any century. The virus that caused it infected 500m people, more than a ...

For years, internet users have shared a rumor about U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. falsely claiming that vaccines caused the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic known as the Spanish flu.

It has long been recognized that most flu deaths are due to pneumonia caused by secondary bacterial infections. But to explain the 1918 pandemic’s unusual virulence, many scientists had come to ...