On at least two occasions, in June 2023 and June 2024, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he had read "articles" and "evidence" linking the start of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic, ...

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 — at ...

From mass graves to economic boom, the Spanish flu reshaped the modern world in ways governments never anticipated. This is ...

A pair of lungs preserved over a century ago from a deceased Spanish flu patient has helped unravel the genetic adaptations undergone by the virus to spread across Europe during the start of the 1918 ...

Learn how the CDC and World Health Organization classify infectious health threats like COVID-19, influenza and Ebola based ...

The Spanish Influenza outbreak in the final stages of World War I a century ago produced the most lethal flu pandemic in ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Historian Nancy Bristow talked about the 1918 influenza pandemic and how it devastated American communities and soldiers during World War I. She ...

Sharks and other predators -- The blue death -- Plague in the City of Angels -- The great parrot fever pandemic -- The "Philly killer" -- Legionnaires' redux -- AIDS in America, AIDS in Africa -- SARS ...

A 110-year-old Pasadena child care center that weathered the Spanish Flu of 1918 once again finds itself threatened by a pandemic. And just like a century ago, it’s reaching out to the community for ...

A comparison between how two major health crises more than 100 years apart should be handled, along with resistance to ...