The skeletons of people who were alive during the 1918 flu pandemic have revealed new clues about people who were more likely to die from the virus. Known as the deadliest in history, the 1918 flu ...

The death toll and economic damage associated with flu highlight its role as one of the most harmful viruses in history.

Near the end of the First World War, a deadly flu raced across the globe. The influenza pandemic became the most severe pandemic in recent history, infecting about one-third of the world’s population ...

Racial disparities in influenza deaths shrunk by 74% in U.S. cities during the 1918 flu pandemic due to an odd coincidence of virus and history. That’s the key finding of our recently published study ...

John M. Barry is the author of “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History” and distinguished scholar at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

Please visit the ‘Drexel’s Response to Coronavirus’ website for the latest public health advisories. In the fall of 1918, a pregnant woman named Naomi Ford visited the Philadelphia department store ...

The 1918 flu pandemic is considered one of the most deadly of all time, and although it has never been completely eradicated, the pandemic came to an end after about two years and three waves of ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has halted all sporting events, as well as every other large gathering in the United States, and fans are wondering how and when games will return. It’s worth it to look back at ...

More than 675,000 Americans have now died of COVID-19. More than a century ago, the globe was left devastated by a pandemic that has been described by experts as "the deadliest in human history." The ...

In the deadly fall wave of the 1918 flu pandemic, millions of people were doomed because they didn’t know what we know now about how viruses and respiratory illnesses spread. We might face a similar ...

There is a difference in the diseases and how schools now operate. When the influenza pandemic struck America in 1918, most cities responded with measures that included closing schools. Yet three ...

The three teenagers—two boys and a girl—could not have known what clues their lungs would one day yield. All they could have known, or felt, before they died in Germany in 1918 was their flu-ravaged ...