Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH's Medical Collection to decode ...

In 1918, an influenza virus known as the Spanish flu killed over 50 million people all over the world, making it the deadliest pandemic in modern history. Skip to main content.

The world was not a fun place between 1914 and 1920. As if the horrors of the First World War (1914-1918) were not hellish enough, much of the world then had to deal with the “Spanish flu ...

Red Cross volunteers fight the Spanish Flu pandemic in the United States in 1918. (APIC / Getty Images) This article appears in the January 11/18, 2021 issue.

The Spanish flu in 1918 paused traditional campaigning but the elections went on as planned. Latest U.S.

The “Spanish” flu was first found in U.S. soldiers and popped up in Europe and Asia in March of 1918. It was a form of an avian flu originating in birds. While the first wave was mild, the ...

The flu arrived as a great war raged in Europe, a conflict that would leave about 20 million people dead over four years. In 1918, the flu would kill more than twice that number – and perhaps ...

The 1918 pandemic, commonly known by the misnomer "Spanish flu," left at least 50 million people dead around the world, including 675,000 in the United States. Comparatively speaking, about 20 ...

The name “Spanish flu” has accompanied the 1918 pandemic ever since, largely because other countries were unwilling or uninterested in reporting on the outbreak within their own borders. We ...

The most severe pandemic in recent history, killing some 50 million people worldwide, the Spanish influenza, may have emerged up to two years earlier than previously believed. And, according to a ...

View of victims of the Spanish flu cases as they lie in beads at a barracks hospital on the campus ... More of Colorado Agricultural College, Fort Collins, Colorado, 1918.

During the 1918-19 H1N1 "Spanish" influenza pandemic, which infected a fifth to a third of the world population, and during which 50 million people have died worldwide, including an estimated ...