Part I: An abrupt introduction to Spanish influenza -- The great shadow -- Part 2: Spanish influenza: The first wave--spring and summer, 1918 -- The advance of the influenza virus -- Three explosions- ...

Introduction : the elephant in the room -- Part one: The unwalled city -- Coughs and sneezes -- The monads of Leibniz -- Part two: Anatomy of a pandemic -- Ripples on a pond -- Like a thief in the ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that 17 countries in Africa have experienced ongoing active transmission ...

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

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, ...

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. “A few ...

GRAND FORKS – A movie about the Spanish flu, “Influenza 1918,” will be shown at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 9, at the Empire Arts Center, 415 DeMers. Admission is free. Presented in conjunction with the ...

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 ...