In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately. Young, old, sick and otherwise-healthy people all became infected ...

For years, internet users have shared a rumor about U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. falsely claiming that vaccines caused the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic known as the Spanish flu. One ...

A university professor and two students recreated a virus identical to the one that caused the devastating 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. If they can do it, so can terrorists. “The Terrorism Warning ...

The A (H1N1)pdm09 viruses, adapted from H1N1, caused the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918, which killed 20-50 million people. The variant has been genetically traced to flu outbreaks in swine ...

A diagram of the protein spike called hemagglutinin that is part of the flu virus. The two orange patches represents the therapeutic molecule used to disable the virus.

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 ...

The 1918 flu pandemic was the worst plague since the Black Death, which occured in the mid-14 th century. During World War I, a new flu virus swept the planet, killing upwards of 50 million people.

In The Great Influenza, widely considered the definitive account of the Spanish flu, historian John M. Barry focuses the majority of his 546-page book on the years 1918 and 1919.

The 1918 H1N1 influenza pandemic, also known as the Spanish flu, was the most severe pandemic in modern history. About 675,000 deaths were reported in the United States. Although we're only a few ...