These sentences are at the heart of Mary Beth Sartor Obermeyer’s fourth book, “When Winter Came: A Country Doctor’s Journey to Fight the Flu Pandemic of 1918,” written in collaboration with Mayo ...

Look back at the chronicle of global pandemics, and the flu pandemic of 1918 stands out as an anomaly for one reason: According to the history books, it struck healthy adults in their prime just as ...

At the outset of the covid-19 pandemic, when Tom Soltis spoke with the Tribune-­Review about the similarities to its 1918 pandemic predecessor, he used an adjective that generated some negative ...

While a narrative emerged that the pandemic indiscriminately struck the young and healthy, new evidence suggests that frail young adults were most vulnerable. By Gina Kolata Gina Kolata has written ...

The 1918 flu pandemic is considered one of the most deadly of all time, and although it has never been completely eradicated, the pandemic came to an end after about two years and three waves of ...

An Oct. 19 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) includes a video with the title “The good ol’ Kansas Flu.” “In 1918, 50 to 100 million people died of the Spanish Flu,” a narrator says. “A few ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. The 1918 influenza pandemic is one of the deadliest in ...

Please visit the ‘Drexel’s Response to Coronavirus’ website for the latest public health advisories. In the fall of 1918, a pregnant woman named Naomi Ford visited the Philadelphia department store ...