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 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 ...

CNN — Pandemic: It's a scary word. But the world has seen pandemics before, and worse ones, too. Consider the influenza pandemic of 1918, often referred to erroneously as the "Spanish flu." ...

This year’s flu season has been tough. But it pales in comparison to the horrors of 1918. One hundred years ago, the United States was swept into a global influenza epidemic that one source called ...

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 ...

Monkeys infected with a resurrected virus that was responsible for history’s deadliest epidemic have given scientists a better idea of how the 1918 Spanish flu attacked so quickly and relentlessly: by ...

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 ...

Introduction: An ill wind -- A victim and a survivor -- "Knock me down" fever -- The killer without a name -- The invisible enemy -- One deadly summer -- Know thy enemy -- The fangs of death -- Like ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. The 1918 influenza pandemic is one of the deadliest in ...

A group of Middlesex County historians may have just uncovered a bit of the state’s lost history. In South River’s Washington Monumental Cemetery there is an open field with no grave markers. For ...

PHILADELPHIA — At Sunday family dinners, the grandchildren would beg to hear that story again, the one about her twins in the baby carriage, and one of them was dead, and what did she do. This was ...