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

An influenza pandemic of the type that ravaged the globe in 1918 and 1919 would kill about 62 million people today, with 96 percent of the deaths occurring in developing countries. That is the ...

“Stanley Miller’s dissertation, ‘A History of La Crosse Wisconsin, 1900-1950,’ reports that schools and theaters were closed, and around 93 people died of the flu in the city of La Crosse,” Godden ...

The preserved lung of an 18-year-old Swiss man has been used to create the full genome of the 1918 "Spanish flu," the first complete influenza A genome with a precise date from Europe. It offers new ...