also known as Spanish flu, spread with astonishing speed around the world, overwhelming India, and reaching Australia and the remote Pacific islands. In just 18 months at least a third of the ...

In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately.

In a breakthrough for influenza research, scientists have discovered immune cells that can recognize influenza (flu) viruses ...

Why it’s too early to compare COVID-19 with the flu Experts say likening novel coronavirus to the flu understates what’s at stake. To fight the next major pandemic, flu hunters turn to these ...

East Tennessee State University researchers have examined the devastating effects of the 1918 Spanish flu in Appalachia, uncovering lessons that resonate in the wake of COVID-19.

and “Bird Flu” epidemics. All the recent epidemics pale in comparison, however, to the deadly Spanish Flu of 1918 that killed an estimated 20-50 million people. It was March of 1918 ...

Tributes have been paid to a 108-year-old woman who lived through the Spanish flu pandemic but has died after contracting coronavirus. Hilda Churchill died at Kenyon Lodge care home in Salford on ...