Even after that virus died out, it would be years before scientists better understood what happened, and some mystery still ...

John Eicher, associate professor of history at Penn State Altoona, has published an article on the 1918 influenza pandemic in the journal Contemporary European History. Analyzing nearly 1,000 memories ...

"Influenza has apparently become domesticated with us" : influenza, medicine and the public, 1890-1918 -- "The whole world seems up-side-down" : patients, families and communities confront the ...

A pair of lungs preserved over a century ago from a deceased Spanish flu patient has helped unravel the genetic adaptations undergone by the virus to spread across Europe during the start of the 1918 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although researchers continue to debate the exact location where the pandemic began, there is no credible evidence that anything ...

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 ...

A mess cook's sick call visit at Camp Funston became the first recorded military case of an outbreak that killed more U.S. soldiers than the Germans did in WWI.

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 ...

Should I use soap and water or wear a mask? Should I take the train? Will they close the schools? What will this do to local businesses? Aspen’s residents faced the 1918 influenza pandemic with the ...

Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH's Medical Collection to decode the genome of the virus responsible for the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic ...