In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately.

It's been dubbed "the forgotten pandemic" — possibly because it coincided with some of the most momentous events in world history. But Dr John Gerrard argues variants of the H3N2 flu, which led to the ...

Despite being one of the newer states in the union, Utah has a wild and weird history with far too many urban legends than ...

Thomas J. Webster was Haverling High valedictorian, an acolyte at St. Thomas Church, an Eagle Scout. He entered the army in ...

The CDC quietly reintroduces the term, despite a broad consensus that the original name is stigmatising and scientifically ...

Flu season is hitting hard in the north of Spain, as cases are climbing faster than ever and the severity indicates that we ...

My grandmother’s baby brother died of diphtheria. Another of her brothers died during World War I, of what was then called the Spanish flu. I am old enough to remember patients in iron lungs due to ...

A pandemic more than half a century ago is still leaving a deadly legacy. Queensland's former chief health officer Dr John Gerrard was a six-year-old when he lost his eldest brother Stephen during the ...

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt has died. She was 106. The beloved chaplain for the Loyola University Chicago men's basketball team, who often also served as scout and unofficial assistant coach, died in ...

Maria Branyas Morera was the oldest living person in the world when she died at 117 in August 2024, and she passed with one fervent wish. "Señora Branyas told us: 'Please study me so I can help others ...

As a concierge at the famously haunted Battery Carriage House Inn (now 20 South Battery) in Charleston, S.C., guests frequently asked one question above all others: Had the staff ever seen a ghost? Dr ...