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 says. “A few ...

A new analysis of the remains of victims of the 1918 influenza pandemic, which killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide, contradicts the widespread belief the flu disproportionately impacted ...

The 1918 influenza pandemic remains the deadliest in modern history, killing tens of millions — and leaving scientists with enduring questions about how it began. A century later, a virologist and ...

An emergency hospital at Camp Funston, Kansas during the 1918 influenza pandemic. New research contradicts the widespread belief the flu disproportionately impacted healthy young adults. Hamilton, ON, ...

Look back at the chronicle of global pandemics, and the flu pandemic of 1918 stands out as an anomaly for one reason: According to the history books, it struck healthy adults in their prime just as ...

Often overshadowed by World War I, the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic devastated populations across the globe. We dive into the impact, medical challenges, and social consequences of this deadly virus.

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of the 1918 pandemic involving the Spanish influenza that killed millions worldwide. During the 1918 pandemic, the local newspapers continued to cover ...

While a narrative emerged that the pandemic indiscriminately struck the young and healthy, new evidence suggests that frail young adults were most vulnerable. By Gina Kolata Gina Kolata has written ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of omaha.com stories. Cancel anytime. Stacker cited National Vital Statistics System mortality data between 1910-1925, digitized by the National Bureau of Economic ...

From the closing of borders to mandatory quarantines, governments around the world are taking drastic steps to try to contain the coronavirus pandemic. Past outbreaks provide a blueprint for ...

It should be hard — exceedingly hard — to obtain the synthetic DNA needed to recreate the virus that caused the deadly 1918 influenza pandemic without authorization. But my lab found that it’s ...