John Barry, the author of The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History, talks about the lessons we can learn from the 1918... The Great Influenza: Lessons To Learn From The ...

After a dozen military trainees caught a deadly strain of the Spanish flu in the fall of 1918, City Manager of Health and Charity and former Denver Mayor Dr. William H. Sharpley set up an advisory ...

In April, Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser for President Joe Biden, said the United States is "out of the pandemic phase" after more than two years. Fauci, the head of the National Institute ...

As World War One ends the dying takes on new proportions when the Spanish Flu ravages the world. A whole generation of young ...

Have you had your flu shot yet? If not, history suggests it might be a good idea. That’s because today we think back to Sept. 16, 1918, when doctors at the Navy base reported the first documented case ...

A groundbreaking study by researchers from the Universities of Basel and Zurich has unlocked one of the most significant viral mysteries of the 20th century. By decoding the genome of the 1918 ...

As Colorado marks another COVID-19 anniversary, the takeaway for historians and epidemiologists is as simple as it is jarring: Americans haven't learned the lessons from its Spanish flu history.

It's easy to stare out your window at the nearly empty streets, at the people wearing masks and leaving a six-foot berth for passersby, and to believe that this is a moment unlike any other. To assume ...

Two decades after surviving an influenza pandemic that devastated the United States, Katherine Anne Porter recounted her experiences in one of the best-known accounts of the period—the 1939 novella ...

On Kris Ehresmann's 2009 calendar, April 23 is marked with two events: "Get haircut. Pandemic begins." That was the day Ehresmann, head of Minnesota's state vaccine program, learned that the nation's ...

Scientists complete the genetic sequence of the deadly 1918 flu virus. With the sequence, the researchers were able to recreate the virus, and they discovered that -- unlike the viruses that caused ...

It is evolutionarily certain that we will have more outbreaks, more pandemics, and frankly, they could be significantly worse than Covid,” says global health expert Seth Berkley.