The 1918 "Spanish Flu" epidemic changed the world and shows the frightening aftermath of a global disease. Pandemics reverberate for generations, altering society, medicine and history in ways ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn the attention to the far-reaching social implications of emerging infectious diseases, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to the far-reaching social implications of emerging infectious diseases, bringing ...

More than a quarter of the U.S. Army would eventually catch the Spanish Flu, with the Navy suffering a similar proportion of cases. 82 percent of the deaths by disease in the U.S. Army (a slight ...

How it started: Unclear, but probably not in Spain. It was a particularly deadly strain of H1N1 influenza and first took root in the U.S. in Kansas. The disease was so virulent and killed so many ...

But few diseases match the year-in, year-out power of this deadly viral infection. Each year it takes the lives of about 37,000 people in the United States and between 250,000 and 500,000 worldwide.

The 1918 influenza pandemic swept across the globe, sickening one-third of the world’s population, or about half a billion people, by the end of its terrifying run. At least 50 million people ...

COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did — approximately 675,000. The U.S. population a century ago was just one-third of what it is today, meaning ...

The 1918 pandemic, commonly known by the misnomer "Spanish flu," left at least 50 million people dead around the world, including 675,000 in the United States. Comparatively speaking, about 20 ...

Red Cross volunteers fight the Spanish Flu pandemic in the United States in 1918. (APIC / Getty Images) The new disease, public officials said as people began to fall ill with unfamiliar symptoms ...

Headlines from 1918 show the steps taken to stop the spread of the Spanish flu in New Orleans. “The disease didn’t really care,” Barry said. “There was not a hell of a lot you could do.” ...