The idea is biologically plausible and historically grounded — and it reframes how we think about the origin of pandemics.

We wondered if we could find old cartoons from our archives from the Spanish Influenza epidemic in 1918 and see if the themes in them were relatable to today’s coronavirus pandemic. In fact ...

We cannot say for certain that that happened in 1918 in Haskell County, but we do know that an influenza outbreak struck in January, an outbreak so severe that, although influenza was not then a ...

In short, on at least two occasions — in June 2023 and June 2024 — Kennedy said he had read what he described as "strong" and "good" evidence linking the 1918 influenza outbreak to vaccine ...

Much like the coronavirus crisis of today, the health officials and political leaders of 1918 stressed the importance avoiding crowds of people to help beat the influenza epidemic ravaging the ...

John Eicher, associate professor of history at Penn State Altoona, has published an article on the 1918 influenza pandemic in ...

In the spring of 1918, as the nation mobilized for war ... Before the year was out, America would be ravaged by a flu epidemic that killed 675,000 — more than in all the wars of this century ...

Courtesy: CDC/Dr. Terrence Tumpey Despite recent advances in microbiology, early 20th-century scientists struggled to understand the source of the deadly 1918 influenza epidemic and how best to ...

Brevig Mission was just one place that was part of a global tragedy, one of the worst ever to befall humanity: the influenza pandemic of 1918-19. The outbreak of this influenza virus, also known ...

The Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 brought with it a slew of folk-medicine remedies. After all, the flu was scary—and there was ...

The Doctor said they might as well face the facts; a scourge of influenza ... in 1918, authored what the scholar Caroline Hovanec says is “perhaps the best-known fictional account of the ...

Soldiers with influenza at the hospital in Camp Funston, Kansas, in 1918. Camp Funston is where the influenza epidemic first made a major appearance. Troops from the camp carried the virus to ...