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

Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images. "A Woman Wears a Flu Mask during the Spanish Flu Epidemic." Getty Images, Feb. 1919, https: ...

The influenza pandemic that killed 675,000 Americans a century ago is often referred to as the " ... Lessons from the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic. March 6, 2022 / 9:25 AM EST / CBS News ...

Fact check: Why is the 1918 influenza virus called 'Spanish flu'? In the black-and-white image, a sign reading "Wear a Mask or Go To Jail" is pinned to a young woman's coat. She stands next to two ...

Fact check: Why is the 1918 influenza virus called 'Spanish flu'? In the black-and-white image, a sign reading "Wear a Mask or Go To Jail" is pinned to a young woman's coat. She stands next to two ...

In the U.S. alone the 1918 influenza epidemic killed an estimated 675,000, around one in five people who contracted the virus. Read more COVID Death Toll in U.S. Reached 675,000, as Many Deaths as ...

The strain of the Russian influenza was 99% similar to H1N1 (the one which also caused the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 and the swine flu pandemic in 2009).

A little over 100 years ago, the Spanish flu pandemic wreaked havoc across the world, killing at least 50million people. In the UK, more than 200,000 people lost their lives.