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.

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

Between 1918 and 1920, the Spanish Influenza tore across the globe and killed tens of millions, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in recorded history. Unlike many other outbreaks, it struck ...

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, ...

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 ...

In the fall of 1918, Edward Kidder Graham, the president of the University of North Carolina, tried to reassure anxious parents. The Spanish flu was spreading rapidly, but Graham insisted the ...