In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately. Young, old, sick and otherwise-healthy people all became infected — at ...

Facts about the Spanish flu. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a ...

The last time a health emergency so imperiled American politics was in 1918, when the Spanish flu killed 675,000 Americans and was dubbed the "mother of all pandemics." The flu peaked in October ...

By 1919, one year later, the so-called Spanish flu had spread around the world, killing an estimated 50 million people, with more than 500,000 dead in the U.S. (That included 195,000 just in the ...

The claim: The 1918 flu pandemic became known as the “Spanish flu” because wartime censors minimized reports of the illness while the Spanish press did not. On March 20, the Facebook page ...

Flue precautions taken in Seattle during the Spanish Influenza epidemic meant no one to ride the street cars without wearing a mask. Photo dated December 1918. Men are pictured in this December ...

The claim: The second wave of the Spanish flu reportedly killed 20 million to 50 million people after the first wave killed 3 million to 5 million people A Facebook post claiming the second wave ...

In the aftermath of World War One, a flu pandemic swept the world, killing at least 50 million people. What lessons can it teach us about Covid-19? One hundred years ago, a world recovering from a ...

Deaths related to COVID-19 in the U.S. have reached 676,000, surpassing the number that died during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918. Until now, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ...

from the 1918 Spanish flu to the latest 2024 H5N1 strains. The University of Melbourne's Dr. Oanh Nguyen, Senior Research ...