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Facts about the Spanish flu. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a ...

The name “Spanish flu” has accompanied the 1918 pandemic ever since, largely because other countries were unwilling or uninterested in reporting on the outbreak within their own borders. We ...

By 1919, one year later, the so-called Spanish flu had spread around the world, killing an estimated 50 million people, with more than 500,000 dead in the U.S.

“If the Spanish flu infected 500 million and killed 50 to 100 million, the global CFR (case fatality rate) was 10 to 20 percent. If the fatality rate was in fact 2.5 percent, ...

The Saratoga County Historical Society at Brookside Museum is hosting a World War I and Spanish Influenza exhibit through June 2019. The museum at 6 Charlton St. in Ballston Spa is open Thursdays ...

In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately. Young, old, sick and otherwise-healthy people all became infected — at ...

The Spanish Flu Pandemic, also known as La Grippe Espagnole, or La Pesadilla, was an unusually severe and deadly strain of avian influenza, a viral infectious disease, that killed some 50 million ...

In a breakthrough for influenza research, scientists have discovered immune cells that can recognize influenza ... from the ...