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

The Spanish flu emerged as World War I was ending, but it would kill far more people than the conflict itself. Infecting roughly a third of the global population, it spread with terrifying speed. Some ...

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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.

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 ...