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

The Spanish flu strain killed its victims with a swiftness never seen before. In the United States stories abounded of people waking up sick and dying on their way to work. The symptoms were ...

And as the summer of 1918 turned to fall, the epidemic lost its mildness: people started to die. The influenza commonly called "Spanish flu" killed more people than the guns of World War I.

Between 1918 and 1919, the Spanish Flu killed at least 50 million people worldwide, with at least 675,000 of those deaths reported in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Contro ...

Once the swellings burst, people had a fever, vomited blood, and soon died. After the devastation of the first world war came the Spanish flu. It did not actually come from Spain, but this was ...

Over 1,200 Spanish flu deaths in Hawaii were members of striking families. In March, a resident physician of Ualapue, Molokai, reported that people were flocking to Molokai to escape from the flu ...