In 1918, an influenza virus known as the Spanish flu killed over 50 million people all over the world, making it the deadliest pandemic in modern history. Skip to main content.

The Flu That Wasn’t Spanish At All A 1918 drawing by Ernest Noble of a monster representing the influenza virus. Credit: Wellcome Collection By the time the “Spanish flu” broke out in the spring of ...

Growing up and being educated in Ireland, I was well aware of the Great (Spanish) Flu and the enormous mortality it inflicted worldwide (“America Forgot the 1918 Flu. Will We Also Forget Covid ...

Before SARS and coronavirus, Spanish flu infected a third of the world’s population and killed as many as 50 million in the waning years of World War I.

Why Spanish flu was so fatal, especially to people in the prime of their lives, is what scientists are striving to understand, as TIME reported in the wake of Hong Kong’s 1997 avian flu outbreak ...

The Spanish Flu pandemic—that would perhaps kill as many as 50 million people worldwide during its course—entered the consciousness of the British public relatively slowly. Without global ...

Nearly everyone who survived the 1918 flu pandemic, which claimed at least half a million American lives, has since died.But their memories, preserved in oral history interviews, shed light on its ...

The Spanish flu still infected an estimated 500 million people, nearly one-third of the world's population, and eventually claimed more than 50 million lives. In the United States, about 675,000 died.

History suggests it might be a good idea to get your flu shot. On Sept. 16, 1918, doctors at the Navy base reported the first case of the Spanish flu here.

During one of the worst epidemics and pandemics in history, Spanish Flu pandemic, a typist wears her influenza mask, New York City, 1918 (Image credit: Public domain) Jump to: ...