The virus known as the Spanish flu had already gripped much of Europe and Asia when it arrived in North Carolina in the fall of 1918. On Sept. 21, William Wright, a 29-year-old in Wilmington, became ...

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 ...

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 ...

I've been reading a great book about a horrific pandemic that gripped the world more than a century ago, John M. Barry's "The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History." I've ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - This year, Governor Gavin Newsom and other state and local leaders say a doubling of the daily coronavirus case count forces them and us to rethink this Thanksgiving. Newsom said ...

What lessons does the 1918 influenza pandemic offer as we respond to the coronavirus crisis? Historian and public health expert John Barry joins Joe Fuller to talk about the parallels and differences ...

Pandemics are nothing new for John Barry. The author and historian spent seven years researching the 1918 pandemic for his book "The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Greatest Plague in History." ...

There might be a tendency among those of us who put only so much stock in history to imagine that influenza originated in 1918. Out of the Great War came this pandemic that killed tens of millions of ...

As the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread across the U.S., recent polls indicate dissatisfaction about the federal response to the pandemic: One Aug. 4 NPR/Ipsos poll found that two-thirds of ...

If you really want to depress yourself — and who among isn't depressed enough yet? — type this into the ol' Google search field: "Will COVID-19 ever end?" And then, separately, go read, "The Great ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - This year, Governor Gavin Newsom and other state and local leaders say a doubling of the daily coronavirus case count forces them and us to rethink this Thanksgiving. Newsom said ...