An emergency hospital at Camp Funston, Kansas during the 1918 influenza pandemic. New research contradicts the widespread belief the flu disproportionately impacted healthy young adults. Hamilton, ON, ...

An Australian research team believes it has found a clue that may help solve one of medicine's biggest mysteries -- why the "Spanish flu" virus of 1918 was so deadly. Scientists at Australian National ...

The 1918 influenza pandemic remains the deadliest in modern history, killing tens of millions — and leaving scientists with enduring questions about how it began. A century later, a virologist and ...

Look back at the chronicle of global pandemics, and the flu pandemic of 1918 stands out as an anomaly for one reason: According to the history books, it struck healthy adults in their prime just as ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Strep infections and not the flu virus itself may have killed most people during the 1918 influenza pandemic, which suggests some of the most dire predictions about a new ...

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 ...

Often overshadowed by World War I, the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic devastated populations across the globe. We dive into the impact, medical challenges, and social consequences of this deadly virus.

The 1918 flu pandemic (which lasted from February 1918 to April 1920) infected an estimated 500 million people and killed 25 to 50 million, representing between 1.3% and 3% of the global population.

While a narrative emerged that the pandemic indiscriminately struck the young and healthy, new evidence suggests that frail young adults were most vulnerable. By Gina Kolata Gina Kolata has written ...

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