Red Cross nurses attempt to shield themselves by wearing masks. Courtesy: American Red Cross When influenza began to cut its deadly path across the U.S. in the autumn of 1918, it did so with such ...

"Influenza has apparently become domesticated with us" : influenza, medicine and the public, 1890-1918 -- "The whole world seems up-side-down" : patients, families and communities confront the ...

American ward at the Fourth Scottish General Hospital in Glasgow. Most of the patients are influenza cases from incoming convoys.1918. Courtesy; Library of Congress Fort Riley, Kansas was a sprawling ...

This is the companion book to the television documentary "Influenza 1918" aired on PBS's documentary series "The American Experience." siris_sil_567526 ...

The 1918 influenza pandemic remains the deadliest in modern history, killing tens of millions — and leaving scientists with enduring questions about how it began. A century later, a virologist and ...

Scientists in Switzerland have cracked open a century-old viral mystery by decoding the genome of the 1918 influenza virus from a preserved Zurich patient. This ancient RNA revealed that the virus had ...

For years, internet users have shared a rumor about U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. falsely claiming that vaccines caused the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic known as the Spanish flu. One ...