the 1918 pandemic killed more people than both World Wars put together. (Get the facts on influenza.) The first official cases of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic were recorded at the U.S. Army’s ...

had already survived one global pandemic. And she was about to survive another. In 1918, then about 6 years old, Asher contracted the Spanish flu, a deadly strain of influenza estimated to have ...

That's just one of many ways that animals help fight the next pandemic. 90 Years Later, 1918 Flu Lives on in Antibodies, Research Ninety years after the 1918 flu pandemic claimed the last of its ...

There is a cemetery in a small railroad town in northern Ohio where I grew up that tells a sliver of the story of the great ‘Spanish’ influenza pandemic of 1918. One section of the cemetery is ...

Tumpey TM et al. Characterization of the reconstructed 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic virus. Science 2005 Oct 7; 310:77-80. Kaiser J. Resurrected influenza virus yields secrets of deadly 1918 ...

A university professor and two students recreated a virus identical to the one that caused the devastating 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. If they can do it, so can terrorists. “The Terrorism Warning ...

Age shift during the 1918 pandemic was extreme, in which the majority of deaths occurred among individuals under 45 years of age, sparing people above this age. During the 2009 influenza pandemic ...

And as the summer of 1918 turned to fall, the epidemic lost its mildness: people started to die. The influenza commonly called "Spanish flu" killed more people than the guns of World War I.

As the world’s most infamous flu pandemic (often referred to as the Spanish flu) raged from 1918–1920, scientists had very few tools available to help them combat or understand the disease.