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 ...

At this point in the coronavirus pandemic, with more than 32 million infected and more than 980,000 dead worldwide, describing this time as "unprecedented" may sound like nails on a chalkboard.

Some influenza patients admitted to a Boston hospital in the morning of October 1918 would be dead by the evening, their bodies turning blue from lack of oxygen. Hospitals reported an average 100 ...

As the coronavirus pandemic creeps into its third year, and the death toll in the United States reaches 900,000, the 1918 influenza pandemic can offer some insight into how this chapter of history ...

"It is known that during the last two weeks of October (1918), more than 37,000 cases of the flu erupted in Alabama. People around the state died by the hundreds," said Michael Leavitt with the ...

When you get a flu that’s good at both, like 1918, that’s how you get a pandemic. Say, for example, bird flu mutates so it can be transmitted between humans. That would be very bad.

Influenza viruses and coronaviruses are genetically different, so it's not possible to make a one-to-one comparison with the 1918 pandemic. Yang noted that the novel coronavirus appears to mutate ...

The St. Louis Red Cross Motor Corps on duty during the influenza epidemic in 1918. Influenza victims crowd into an emergency hospital at Camp Funston, a subdivision of Fort Riley in Kansas in 1918.… ...

As protection against the influenza virus, men are seen gargling with salt and water after a day spent working in the War Garden at Camp Dix, New Jersey, September 1918.

The Spanish flu pandemic killed 50 million people worldwide, ... America Forgot the 1918 Flu. ... children whose parents were dying or dead.

Primetta Giacopini’s mother, Pasquina Fei, died in Connecticut of the flu in 1918 at age 25. That flu pandemic killed about 675,000 Americans — a death toll eclipsed this month by the 2020-21 ...