The influenza ward at Walter Reed Hospital during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 Library of Congress The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 reached just about every continent throughout the globe.

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 at Camp Funston in Fort Riley, Kansas. This disease, an H1N1 strain ...

Growing up and being educated in Ireland, I was well aware of the Great (Spanish) Flu and the enormous mortality it inflicted worldwide (“America Forgot the 1918 Flu. Will We Also Forget Covid?” ...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO) — Another grim milestone lies on the horizon as U.S. deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic appear poised to overtake the total U.S. death toll from infamous the 1918 influenza.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - As World War I raged on, the City of Charleston was battling a fast increase in Spanish Flu cases on Oct. 6, 1918. The first case of the infection was discovered at an Army ...

COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did — approximately 675,000. The U.S. population a century ago was just one-third of what it is today, meaning the ...

This post originally ran on July 13, 2020. It is rerunning now as COVID-19 surpasses the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic as the deadliest in U.S. history. The Spanish flu claimed an estimated 675,000 ...

CANYON COUNTY, Idaho — Editor's Note: This article was originally published by the Idaho Press. Christmas and New Years were quiet affairs in Nampa in 1918, since the influenza ban prevented any ...

In the last hard days of World War I, just two weeks before world powers agreed to an armistice, a doctor wrote a letter to a friend. The doctor was stationed at the US Army’s Camp Devens west of ...

This post originally ran on July 13, 2020. It is rerunning now as COVID-19 surpasses the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic as the deadliest in U.S. history. The Spanish flu claimed an estimated 675,000 ...