It is the 100th anniversary of the 1918 Spanish flu (1,2) pandemic, and the date is not the only similarity between the two. While it is impossible that the morbidity and mortality that is being ...

Few have come close to the so-called Spanish flu of 1918, when 500 million people were infected and as many as 100 million killed by a brutal influenza outbreak at the end of the First World War.

Sufferers could die within hours of developing symptoms which included their skin turning blue and their lungs filling with fluid, causing them to suffocate. The pandemic ended with the arrival of ...

The Spanish Flu emerged in early March 1918, ... Some people died within hours of becoming ill, with their skin turning blue and their lungs filling with fluids, causing them to suffocate.

OUTBREAK THAT HAPPENED IN 1918. >> DEATH IN BLACK AND WHITE. PICTURE AFTER PICTURE FROM THE SPANISH FLU OUTBREAK SHOWING THE STRUGGLE IN THE U.S., ACROSS THE COUNTRY, AND AROUND THE WORLD TO KEEP ...

It was influenza, or Spanish flu, a disease that turned the skin blue and killed more Americans than World Wars I and II combined.

Nearly 100 years ago in 1918, the world dealt with the pandemic influenza, known as the “Spanish flu.” With little to no knowledge of this influenza, people were dying at a rapid rate.

Ten Topekans had been killed in one day by a flu pandemic that was ravaging the world, according to an article published Oct. 19, 1918, in The Topeka Daily Capital. This week’s “History Guy ...

How the Horrific 1918 Flu Spread Across America The toll of history’s worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World War II combined. And it may have begun in the ...

For four weeks in the fall of 1918, Knoxville fought the Spanish flu. The contagious illness killed an estimated 132 people and closed schools, churches, theaters and pool rooms for almost a month.