In the last hard days of World War I, just two weeks before world powers agreed to an armistice, a doctor wrote a letter to a friend. The doctor was stationed at the US Army’s Camp Devens west of ...

A mess cook's sick call visit at Camp Funston became the first recorded military case of an outbreak that killed more U.S. soldiers than the Germans did in WWI.

The influenza ward at Walter Reed Hospital during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 Library of Congress The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 reached just about every continent throughout the globe.

The 1918-19 influenza pandemic infected 500 million people worldwide and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million. Some estimates go as high as 100 million, including some 675,000 Americans. About ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH's Medical Collection to decode the genome of the virus responsible for the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic ...

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 ...

November 29, 1918 - Influenza wreaked havoc and killed thousands in Nebraska in 1918. The flu took hold in the state in October 1918 which lead to statewide closings of schools, churches and anywhere ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The virus that caused the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic which killed more people than World War One was so deadly because it triggered an uncontrolled immune system response in its ...