The Spanish Influenza Epidemic of 1918 was one of the most devastating events in human history, killing an estimated 20 to 50 million people worldwide. Like everywhere else, Syracuse felt the pain ...

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 1918 pandemic virus infected cells in the upper respiratory tract, transmitting easily, but also deep in the lungs, damaging tissue and often leading to viral as well as bacterial pneumonias.

As the world’s most infamous flu pandemic (often referred to as the Spanish flu) raged from 1918–1920, scientists had very few tools available to help them combat or understand the disease.

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 ...

There is little population immunity to these novel strains, and this was what led to the devastating worldwide influenza pandemic in 1918 and less severe pandemics in 1957, 1968, 1977 and 2009. Since ...

The work reveals that the pandemic flu was likely the direct predecessor of the seasonal H1N1 flu that circulated for decades. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant food and ...

BBC's "Downton Abbey" is one of the rare aspects of popular culture to show the grim costs of the 1918 flu pandemic. Courtesy Carnival Films Ltd. The setting is a troopship a few days out of New ...

She has been working at PEOPLE since 2017. Primetta Giacopini, who lived through World War II and the Great Influenza pandemic of 1918, has died after a battle with COVID. She was 105.