Long before it reached cities or ships, the 1918 flu was already spreading in army camps across the U.S. and Canada. What looked like a local outbreak was the start of something far worse One Fernando ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - As World War I raged on, the City of Charleston was battling a fast increase in Spanish Flu cases on Oct. 6, 1918. The first case of the infection was discovered at an Army ...

“There was a little girl, she had a little bird, And she called it by the pretty name of Enza. But one day it flew away, but it didn’t stay, For when she raised the window, in-flew-Enza.” (1894 by ...

Health authorities seemed desperate for encouraging news when influenza swept through Billings in 1918. When no flu deaths had been reported in a 24-hour period, The Billings Gazette reported on Oct.

Schuylkill County families faced two wars in 1918 — one in Europe, the other at home. The Pottsville Republican and other newspapers ran lists of county residents who died in World War I in France and ...

Camp Pike, 1918: The main base hospital complex covered some 20-acres to serve the many thousands of enlisted men and the 1,500 commissioned officers at the base training for World War I. The “bright ...

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Health officials have recorded 28 suspected cases and 15 fatalities so far in the latest outbreak of the deadly virus, which has claimed thousands of lives in previous outbreaks in the Central African ...

A hospital in Kansas during the Spanish flu epidemic in 1918. Credit: Wikimedia Commons In a glass jar at the University of Zurich, a lung has been sitting in silence for more than a hundred years.

A century-old Swiss flu sample reveals that critical human-adaptations were in place at the pandemic’s onset, offering fresh clues to viral evolution and future preparedness. Credit: Shutterstock ...