The early fall of 1918 brought the deadly Spanish influenza to Baltimore — our other, earlier pandemic. The death toll, often affecting people in their 20s and 30s, was devastating. But public ...

Scientists who synthesized two genes from the virus that caused the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic said on Thursday they have a found new clues about what made it so deadly. Between 20 million and 50 ...

GRAND FORKS – A movie about the Spanish flu, “Influenza 1918,” will be shown at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 9, at the Empire Arts Center, 415 DeMers. Admission is free. Presented in conjunction with the ...

From the closing of borders to mandatory quarantines, governments around the world are taking drastic steps to try to contain the coronavirus pandemic. Past outbreaks provide a blueprint for ...

Editor’s note: To give insight into today’s pandemic, The Leader-Herald is dipping into its archives to report on the 1918 pandemic and how it affected the Tri-county area. This is the first of ...

In a glass jar at the University of Zurich, a lung has been sitting in silence for more than a hundred years. Preserved in formalin, the organ belonged to an 18-year-old Swiss man who died during the ...

WILLMAR -- The first ominous signs were innocent enough. They appeared in a weekly dispatch in the Willmar Tribune from Camp Dodge, Iowa, in the spring of 1918. New military recruits from Kandiyohi ...

San Francisco received national praise for its early, proactive response to the Spanish flu pandemic in the fall of 1918. But when the number of cases tapered off by November 1918, the city relaxed ...

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." Misconceptions ...

National: How the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic hit states across America On March 11, 1918, nearly one year into America’s involvement in World War I, the country reported its first case of a new illness ...