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 ...

Another case of bird flu has been detected in Philadelphia, but health officials say the risk to the public remains low.

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The flu, namely Influenza A, has been rapidly spreading through our region. Just last Friday, the entire Eagles nation came out to celebrate during a flu season that has ...

Spanish Flu or 1918 Flu is also called “Forgotten Flu or Forgotten Pandemic” due to the little attention it receives today, despite being the deadliest pandemic of the 20th century. Let us remind you ...

History suggests it might be a good idea to get your flu shot. On Sept. 16, 1918, doctors at the Navy base reported the first case of the Spanish flu here.

But the mortality curve of the 1918 flu was a W, with a middle peak of people between 20 and 40—young and healthy, as the Devens military recruits would have been.

The Spanish flu pandemic killed 50 million people worldwide, but acts of God are less memorable than wars and other disasters caused by humans.

Stacker investigated how Los Angeles fared during the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic using data hosted on OSF, researched by Elizabeth Wrigley-Field and Martin Eiermann.

The 1918 flu pandemic virus kills an estimated 195,000 Americans during October. Philadelphia is hit hard: Cold-storage plants are used as temporary morgues and packing crates are used as coffins, and ...

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 ...