By the end of the war, as the peak of epidemic passed—and it potentially mutated again to a less lethal form—the virus had become an accepted fact of life almost to the point that it was being joked ...

The following is an excerpt from Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World * by Laura Spinney.*. When a new threat to life emerges, the first and most pressing concern is to ...

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 flu – whole families, including a county family of 10 taken ...

"The real lessons I think of 1918 are that…fear, propaganda and censorship all played great roles in the Spanish flu pandemic,” says Davis. How bad was the Spanish flu? New estimates put the ...

Kansas City, Missouri, schools closed for the 1918 Spanish flu. But then they opened and closed again. ... But all this talk about a dangerous epidemic is Hun propaganda. ...

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 ...

Oct. 7—GRAND FORKS — A movie about the Spanish flu, "Influenza 1918," will be shown at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 9, at the Empire Arts Center, 415 DeMers. Admission is free. Presented in ...

Mount Vernon-raised historian Kenneth Davis – author of “More Deadly than War” – says the 1918 pandemic was a warning for the future.

Mount Vernon-raised historian Kenneth Davis – author of “More Deadly than War” – says the 1918 pandemic was a warning for the future.

Mount Vernon-raised historian Kenneth Davis – author of “More Deadly than War” – says the 1918 pandemic was a warning for the future.