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I’ve been reading a great book about a horrific pandemic that gripped the world more than a century ago, John M. Barry’s “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History.” Mr.

Enemas, bloodletting, and whiskey : treating the flu -- The jolly rant : a history of the virus -- "Something fierce" : the Spanish flu of 1918 -- "Am I gonna die?" : round two, and three, and four ..

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Winter brings snow, ice, and freezing temperatures, but these climatic conditions are also the harbingers of another time of year: flu season. We all know the signs-chills, fever, sore throat, muscle ...

MILWAUKEE -- Tragically, history has a tendency to repeat itself, and historians say the 1918 influenza pandemic has strong parallels to the coronavirus pandemic. In 1918, the world was at war, but ...

Hopefully, the headlines will not turn around again. When the word “pandemic” was first used to describe the possibility of a massive influenza pestilence of a worldwide nature, the history buff in me ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* pre-print server, researchers investigated the effect of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) exposure on the severity of influenza in ...

On Dec. 14, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 reached a grim, new milestone: 300,000 Americans killed. That’s nearly half of the 675,000 Americans killed a century ago during the 1918 flu, the ...