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 ...

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 ...

Alicia Sosa (right) with her parents in an undated photo (Photo courtesy Alicia Sosa and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) Alicia Sosa has a memory from her childhood in Mexico of ...

EUGENE, OR -- A 103-year-old Oregon woman is fearlessly taking on her second pandemic. Bernice Homan recently received her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. She lived through the 1918 flu pandemic, ...

Historian and author John Barry is dead certain: If there was a vaccine during the deadly 1918 flu pandemic, the line of Americans waiting for a shot would have stretched from coast to coast. “It was ...

The 1918-19 influenza pandemic killed an estimated 675,000 Americans in a U.S. population one-third the size of what it is today. It struck down 50 million victims globally at a time when the world ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has now killed roughly the same amount of people who died from the 1918 Spanish flu. According to Johns Hopkins, more than 675,000 Americans have died from COVID-19. The Centers ...