It appeared to be nothing more than the flu bug, a common occurrence among ... Hundreds of thousands of young soldiers were training for World War I, and soon the sickness swept across training ...

Despite becoming known as the Spanish flu, the first recorded cases were in the United States in the final year of World War I. (Explore the memorials of World War I.) A magnified view of the H1N1 ...

The pandemic occurred just at the moment in history when the nightmare of World War I ... of the flu virus to proliferate by blocking the activity of the neuraminidase enzyme. When the Spanish ...

Spain was the only country hit by the virus that was not involved in World War I; therefore it was the only country to report the true extent of the pandemic. This resulted in the mistaken belief that ...

The influenza commonly called "Spanish flu" killed more people than the guns of World War I. Estimates put the worldwide death toll at 21,642,274. Some one billion people were affected by the ...

A Donegal woman celebrated her 109th birthday and recalled how she survived two World Wars and only drank once – due to Spanish flu in 1918. Ruby Druce, who was born in 1915 and is believed to ...

Isolation wards were set up at Malulani Hospital during the Spanish flu outbreak on Maui ... When the United States entered World War I in 1917, hundreds of young men from Maui volunteered ...