The 1918 flu virus, which killed 20 million people around the world, was probably so deadly because of a unique bird-like protein, U.S. and British scientists reported Thursday. Like a current ...

The Valley City (N.D.) Times-Record carried a how-to-do-it article: It told how to make a face mask out of gauze and string. It was timely, because it was at the height of the 1918 flu epidemic. Two ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The economy-sized bottles of hand sanitizer that have been spotted around campus in recent weeks ...

Please visit the ‘Drexel’s Response to Coronavirus’ website for the latest public health advisories. The Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMCP), the world’s first degree-granting women’s ...

A century ago, Cambridge was in the middle of yet another wave of the Spanish flu. Lockdowns, overcrowded hospitals, nurse shortages, school closures and high death tolls consumed the pages of the ...

A Message from the editor / Laurence D. Reed -- -- 1918 and 1919: a tale of two pandemics / Stephen C. Redd, Thomas R. Frieden, Anne Schuchat, and Peter A. Briss -- The 1918-1919 influenza pandemic in ...

If health officials and media prognosticators are accurate, this coming winter may bring with it one of the most sweeping, deadly outbreaks of killer flu that the world has ever seen. While that ...

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OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - In the United States, 471,000 have died from the coronavirus. Go back about 100 years, and records show the influenza epidemic killed 650,000 Americans. The COVID-19 death toll in ...

Margaret Hogan well remembers the 1918 flu epidemic. She, her mother and her siblings all came down with the disease. The only one who didn't was her father, and he was a busy guy, taking care of his ...

The death toll of the so-called "Spanish Flu" epidemic was estimated at 675,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The COVID-19 death toll in America has surpassed the ...

News accounts throughout the COVID-19 pandemic often have emphasized the shortage of nurses nationwide because of illness from the disease or burnout from caring for an overflow of extremely sick ...