The 1918-19 influenza pandemic infected 500 million people worldwide and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million. Some estimates go as high as 100 million, including some 675,000 Americans. About ...

Public meetings of all kinds -- schools, churches, theaters -- were closed for most of October 1918 because of a flu epidemic that killed 7,350 Oklahomans and more than 600,000 people nationwide. Dr.

This year’s flu season has been tough. But it pales in comparison to the horrors of 1918. One hundred years ago, the United States was swept into a global influenza epidemic that one source called ...

It's easy to stare out your window at the nearly empty streets, at the people wearing masks and leaving a six-foot berth for passersby, and to believe that this is a moment unlike any other. To assume ...

Introduction: An ill wind -- A victim and a survivor -- "Knock me down" fever -- The killer without a name -- The invisible enemy -- One deadly summer -- Know thy enemy -- The fangs of death -- Like ...

Nurses at Creighton University during Spanish flu pandemic in 1918. After four weeks cooped up indoors because of a deadly pandemic, the people of Omaha wanted to party. During October 1918, Omahans ...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading expert on infectious diseases, spoke in a forum Thursday with National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins and Dr. Luciana Borio, a member of ...

Plagues and epidemics in anthropological perspective / D. Ann Herring and Alan C. Swedlung -- Ecosyndemics : global warming and the coming plagues of the twenty-first century / Merrill Singer -- ...