Almost exactly 100 years ago, one-third of the world's population found itself infected in a deadly viral pandemic. It was the Spanish flu. Its death toll is unknown but is generally considerd to ...

The very young and very old—typically the first to fall in such an outbreak—were not immune, but the Spanish flu had an unusual thirst for the blood of ostensibly healthy adults. Half its ...

An Oct. 19 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) includes a video with the title “The good ol’ Kansas Flu.” “In 1918, 50 to 100 million people died of the Spanish Flu,” a narrator says.

Today, as American government leaders face another pandemic, historians recognize similar challenges for the federal government system now as it confronted during Spanish flu era. "I think there ...

The H1N1 outbreak of 1918 was worse than all the ... That was strictly H1N1, the Spanish flu, which has nothing to do with the pathology of the coronavirus. We still don’t even know what the ...

Kennedy Jr. falsely claiming that vaccines caused the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic known as the Spanish flu. One Facebook post (archived) with around 105,000 reactions at the time of this writing ...

Here’s how it works. In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately. Young, old, sick and otherwise-healthy people ...

Public health officials took a hard look at the 1918-1919 Spanish flu pandemic for lessons learned when they began planning a few years ago for future pandemics. When Michael Leavitt, then ...

In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately. Young, old, sick and otherwise-healthy people all became infected — at ...