From the perspective of over 100 years later, and in the midst of another pandemic, some of the material featured in the British press about the Spanish flu epidemic makes difficult reading. They do, ...

Military planes would drop “propaganda bombs” on the ... But as for the Spanish flu, it was the worst recorded epidemic in York County, past or present. The things you’ve heard about the ...

"The real lessons I think of 1918 are that…fear, propaganda ... the Spanish flu? "Spain was a neutral country. It did not censor its newspapers. So the first accounts of a massive epidemic ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — In some ways, it’s deja flu ... of the influenza epidemic.” A letter writer to the Evening Tribune dismissed the whole thing as “influenza propaganda” and suggested ...

The coronavirus (COVID-19) is not the Spanish ... propaganda. Monday, Oct. 7: The total number of cases reaches 244. Two additional deaths are reported. City officials believe the epidemic ...

When the Spanish flu epidemic broke out in the United States, newspaper headline offered grim numbers. Arizona Daily Star headlines included "Influenza Toll in U.S. Reaches Total of 30,000 Cases ...

In the end, the 1918 Spanish flu that descended on Kansas City ... But all this talk about a dangerous epidemic is Hun propaganda.” A headline in The Star proclaimed the bans put in place ...

It was the worst epidemic in American history, killing about 675,000. From 1918 to 1919, the Spanish flu infected about 500 million people worldwide, about one-third of the world's population at ...