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 1918 flu is still with us’: The deadliest pandemic ever is still causing problems today. ... The bloody trench warfare across Europe left 8.5 million or more soldiers dead.

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 ...

We know it now as the 1918 influenza pandemic, and its tremors were felt far and wide. By the end of its spread, tens of millions were dead. The field of public health has taken a giant leap from ...

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 ...

One hundred years ago. the influenza pandemic of 1918, also known as the Spanish flu, infected 500 million people worldwide. It has been called the "greatest medical holocaust in history." ...

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 ...

A flu virus as deadly as the one that caused the 1918 Spanish flu could kill as many as 81 million people worldwide if it struck today, a new study estimated. How many dead in replay of 1918 flu ...

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.

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.