Red Cross volunteers fight the Spanish Flu pandemic in the United States in 1918. (APIC / Getty Images) The new disease, public officials said as people began to fall ill with unfamiliar symptoms ...

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.

There were three waves of the Spanish Flu, but the second bout of the disease was especially catastrophic for the US in the late summer of 1918.

St. Louis City Hospital, 1515 Lafayette Avenue, circa 1940. The hospital cared for many patients during the Spanish Flu epidemic in 1918-19.

A century after one of history?s most catastrophic disease outbreaks, scientists are rethinking how to guard against another super-flu like the 1918 influenza that slaughtered tens of millions as ...

American Expeditionary Force victims of the flu pandemic at U.S. Army Camp Hospital no. 45 in Aix-les-Bains, France, in 1918. Wikipedia Nearly 100 years ago, in 1918, the world experienced the ...

One hundred years ago. the influenza pandemic of 1918, also known as the Spanish flu, infected 500 million people worldwide. It has been called the "greatest medical holocaust in history ...

10 Misconceptions About the 1918 'Spanish Flu' In the pandemic of 1918, between 50 and 100 million people are thought to have died, representing as much as 5% of the world’s population.

The “Spanish flu” pandemic, the subject of a new, ongoing exhibit at the Mütter Museum, killed tens of millions of people worldwide.

Eureka’s old Northern California Hospital, which became St. Joseph Hospital in 1920, ended up being a vital player in the fight against Spanish influenza in October 1918. On Oct. 23 of that year ...

But perhaps the worst times for the fort-turned-hospital were not a direct result of the war, but rather of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic that would eventually kill between 50 and 100 million ...

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.