Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although researchers continue to debate the exact location where the pandemic began, there is no credible evidence that anything ...

Immunization against the flu as we know it today was not practiced in 1918, and thus played no role in ending the pandemic. Exposure to prior strains of the flu may have offered some protection. For ...

John Eicher, associate professor of history at Penn State Altoona, has published an article on the 1918 influenza pandemic in the journal Contemporary European History. Analyzing nearly 1,000 memories ...

A Message from the editor / Laurence D. Reed -- -- 1918 and 1919: a tale of two pandemics / Stephen C. Redd, Thomas R. Frieden, Anne Schuchat, and Peter A. Briss -- The 1918-1919 influenza pandemic in ...

A pair of lungs preserved over a century ago from a deceased Spanish flu patient has helped unravel the genetic adaptations undergone by the virus to spread across Europe during the start of the 1918 ...

TULSA, OK -- The worst flu pandemic in modern history killed 50 million people and is linked to the same H1N1 virus as the current outbreak. Tourists donning masks. Schools shutting down. Doctors ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Strep infections and not the flu virus itself may have killed most people during the 1918 influenza pandemic, which suggests some of the most dire predictions about a new ...

Actually, the initial wave of deaths from the pandemic in the first half of 1918 was relatively low. It was in the second wave, from October through December of that year, that the highest death rates ...