The idea is biologically plausible and historically grounded — and it reframes how we think about the origin of pandemics.

John Eicher, associate professor of history at Penn State Altoona, has published an article on the 1918 influenza pandemic in ...

And as the summer of 1918 turned to fall, the epidemic lost its mildness: people started to die. The influenza commonly called "Spanish flu" killed more people than the guns of World War I.

The first wave of the pandemic had arrived. (What is the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic?) The Spanish flu strain killed its victims with a swiftness never seen before. In the United ...

We wondered if we could find old cartoons from our archives from the Spanish Influenza epidemic in 1918 and see if the themes in them were relatable to today’s coronavirus pandemic. In fact ...

The Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 brought with it a slew of folk-medicine remedies. After all, the flu was scary—and there was ...

“Your brother has the influenza, Robert,” a man tells his son. “...And now that they’ve closed the schools to keep the epidemic from ... all came down with “Spanish flu.” ...

In fact, the Philadelphia Bureau of Public Health had issued a bulletin about the so-called Spanish ... of influenza were reported. Two days later, the city was forced to admit that epidemic ...

Italy’s Coronavirus Cases Beginning to Decline After Two-Week Lockdown Born in 1919 during the Spanish Flu pandemic, the Italian man also survived that severe illness outbreak, according to Lisi.