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 ...

A pair of lungs preserved over a century ago from a deceased Spanish flu patient has helped unravel the genetic adaptations undergone by the virus to spread across Europe during the start of the 1918 ...

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

EUGENE, OR -- A 103-year-old Oregon woman is fearlessly taking on her second pandemic. Bernice Homan recently received her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. She lived through the 1918 flu pandemic, ...

In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately.

The nation’s death toll stood at 675,722 as of Sept. 20 at 4:20 p.m. CT, according to data from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University. The comparison offers a stark reminder of the pandemic’s ...

COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did — approximately 675,000. The U.S. population a century ago was just one-third of what it is today, meaning the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has now killed roughly the same amount of people who died from the 1918 Spanish flu. According to Johns Hopkins, more than 675,000 Americans have died from COVID-19. The Centers ...