Humanity's greatest predator: A laboratory recreation of the H1N1 virus that killed untold millions in 1918. Credit: BSIP / Universal Images Group via Getty The coronavirus is nothing next to the ...

Staff Writer On Dec. 14, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 reached a grim, new milestone: 300,000 Americans killed. That’s nearly half of the 675,000 Americans killed a century ago during the 1918 flu ...

In the last hard days of World War I, just two weeks before world powers agreed to an armistice, a doctor wrote a letter to a friend. The doctor was stationed at the US Army’s Camp Devens west of ...

Pandemic: It’s a scary word. But the world has seen pandemics before, and worse ones, too. Consider the influenza pandemic of 1918, often referred to erroneously as the “Spanish flu.” Misconceptions ...

A century ago – in the fall of 1918 – Sonoma County was ready to welcome its soldier sons and nurse and ambulance-driver daughters back home again from France with all the jubilation of victory. But ...

Comparisons of deaths stemming from the pandemics of 1918–19 and 2020–21 will be more insightful if we understand whose deaths were (and were not) included in the count of victims during the “Spanish ...

It was the worst pandemic in modern history. The 1918 influenza virus swept the globe, killing at least 50 million people worldwide. In the US, the disease devastated cities, forcing law enforcement ...

Sometimes, in our careers, we are lucky enough to hit on a topic that becomes more than work, a life force of its own, a passion. In 2004, I was searching for an MA research project in Maynooth, and ...

As a medical historian, I have never been busier. Over the past 20 months, journalists and policy makers have reached out in an effort to understand what past infectious diseases might teach us about ...

The global flu outbreak of 1918 killed 50 million people worldwide, ranking as one of the deadliest epidemics in history. For decades, scientists have debated where in the world the pandemic started, ...