The 1918 influenza pandemic remains the deadliest in modern history, killing tens of millions — and leaving scientists with enduring questions about how it began. A century later, a virologist and ...

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 deadly fall wave of the 1918 flu pandemic, millions of people were doomed because they didn’t know what we know now about how viruses and respiratory illnesses spread. We might face a similar ...

The 1918 influenza pandemic provides a cautionary tale for what the future may hold for COVID-19, says Siddharth Chandra. After a decade studying a flu virus that killed approximately 15,000 Michigan ...

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, was ...

During the 1918 flu pandemic, people wore masks but they provided limited protection against the virus. (Contributed by the Office of the Public Health Service Historian) In 1918, the leading cause of ...

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 ...

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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 ...

In September 1918, Philadelphia held a planned Liberty Loan Parade to promote the government bonds that were being issued to pay for World War I. But the parade took place when the pandemic commonly ...

Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Rothman is managing editor at TIME. If you’ve been reading about how bad the flu is this year, it’s hard not to worry, and with good reason. The 2018 influenza ...

John Barry, author of the 2004 book, The Great Influenza, draws parallels between today's pandemic and the flu of 1918. In both cases, he says, "the outbreak was trivialized for a long time." This is ...