The flu arrived as a great war raged in Europe, a conflict that would leave about 20 million people dead over four years.

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 ...

Retropolis The 1918 flu didn’t end in 1918. Here’s what its third year can teach us.

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 ...

Public health has come a long way since the deadly flu, but we find ourselves in an oddly similar moment, using many of the same measures employed in 1918, a medical historian says.

Skeletons of 1918 Flu Victims Reveal Clues About Who Was Likely to Die While a narrative emerged that the pandemic indiscriminately struck the young and healthy, new evidence suggests that frail ...

Why Are There Almost No Memorials to the Flu of 1918? A restaurant owner in Vermont and a professor from New Zealand are among the few to commemorate the most lethal pandemic since the bubonic plague.

Primetta Giacopini, a 105-year-old woman who's survived the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed 50 million people globally, has died of COVID-19.

Why was the 1918 flu so lethal? It is a conundrum that scientists have deliberated over for a century, because the 1918 flu is an anomaly in the annals of flu pandemics too.

The idea is biologically plausible and historically grounded — and it reframes how we think about the origin of pandemics.

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 ...

The 1918 flu pandemic had lessons to teach us about future pandemics and preparedness efforts. Here’s what 1918 flu experts say we should have learned, what went wrong and their worries and ...