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 ...

Public meetings of all kinds -- schools, churches, theaters -- were closed for most of October 1918 because of a flu epidemic that killed 7,350 Oklahomans and more than 600,000 people nationwide. Dr.

Introduction: An ill wind -- A victim and a survivor -- "Knock me down" fever -- The killer without a name -- The invisible enemy -- One deadly summer -- Know thy enemy -- The fangs of death -- Like ...

Members of the American Red Cross remove Spanish influenza victims from a house at Etzel and Page avenues in 1918. Post-Dispatch file photo St. Mary's Infirmary, at 1536 Papin Street, one of more than ...

A group of Middlesex County historians may have just uncovered a bit of the state’s lost history. In South River’s Washington Monumental Cemetery there is an open field with no grave markers. For ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - As World War I raged on, the City of Charleston was battling a fast increase in Spanish Flu cases on Oct. 6, 1918. The first case of the infection was discovered at an Army ...

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 ...

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