When young, healthy soldiers began getting sick by the dozens in March, 1918 ... In only five days, influenza leaves 72 of the 80 native Inupiat inhabitants dead in the small town of Brevig ...

COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

There have been considerable advances in medical technology and scientific knowledge in dealing with influenza since the early 1900s. Prevention strategies involving annual influenza vaccination ...

The U.S. was considered more prepared than any other country to deal with a pandemic. But when Covid arrived, multiple flaws were exposed.

Such a scenario raises the specter of another 1918 influenza pandemic -- when human flu is believed to have combined with avian flu during the upheavals of World War I. The 1918 flu infected an ...