From the closing of borders to mandatory quarantines, governments around the world are taking drastic steps to try to contain the coronavirus pandemic. Past outbreaks provide a blueprint for ...

COVID-19 isn't the first pandemic Orel Borgesca had to get through. The coronavirus pandemic may be forcing millions to adjust to stay-at-home orders, but for Orel Borgeson, this isn’t the first ...

The 1918-19 influenza pandemic infected 500 million people worldwide and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million. Some estimates go as high as 100 million, including some 675,000 Americans. About ...

KEARNEY - As a young girl, Valerie Lee Vierk walked past the results of the 1918 influenza epidemic. Her daily walks with her mother through the Ravenna cemetery revealed tombstones for those who had ...

Emiel "Bud" Belzer of Rapid City was only six years old when his uncle caught the Spanish flu. Almost 91 years later, Belzer still remembers the smell of his farmhouse near De Smet the only time they ...

In 1918, newspapers in Lincoln and worldwide were dominated by World War I stories. In late 1917 and early 1918, a new strain of influenza was born, possibly in China. In May 1918, a reported 8 ...

Long before it reached cities or ships, the 1918 flu was already spreading in army camps across the U.S. and Canada. What ...

Health authorities seemed desperate for encouraging news when influenza swept through Billings in 1918. When no flu deaths had been reported in a 24-hour period, The Billings Gazette reported on Oct.

Two page paper pamphlet, stapled, with red cover. Dated 28th October, 1918. In his pamphlet, "The Unburied Dead," Guy Beckley Stearns, M.D., discusses homeopathic remedies employed in the influenza ...