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 coronavirus isn't the first time a virus shut down the world. This is everything you need to know about the 1918 Flu ...

Should I use soap and water or wear a mask? Should I take the train? Will they close the schools? What will this do to local businesses? Aspen’s residents faced the 1918 influenza pandemic with the ...

Just over a century ago, a virulent flu outbreak was wreaking havoc on the world. We know it now as the 1918 influenza pandemic, and its tremors were felt far and wide. By the end of its spread, tens ...

“Churches, Schools, Shows closed.” “Flu epidemic ravages fast.” “Lid to go on city today.” Those headlines are familiar today, but they screamed across newspapers more than 100 years ago during the ...

EUGENE, OR -- A 103-year-old Oregon woman is fearlessly taking on her second pandemic. Bernice Homan recently received her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. She lived through the 1918 flu pandemic, ...

The Spanish Flu was one of the deadliest pandemics the world has ever seen – so how was one sleepy Colorado town able to escape unscathed? Untold is a free collection of short, compelling, history ...

In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately.

The Forum on Microbial Threats hosted a 1.5-day workshop that provided a venue to examine lessons—both applied lessons and missed opportunities—from a century of major outbreaks and pandemics. As we ...