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

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 ...

A pair of lungs preserved over a century ago from a deceased Spanish flu patient has helped unravel the genetic adaptations undergone by the virus to spread across Europe during the start of the 1918 ...

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." ...

The deadliest pandemic in modern history killed tens of millions, yet its aftermath quietly transformed economies, labor, and everyday life. From lockdown failures and mass graves to rising wages, new ...

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 ...

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 COVID-19 pandemic has now killed roughly the same amount of people who died from the 1918 Spanish flu. According to Johns Hopkins, more than 675,000 Americans have died from COVID-19. The Centers ...