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Why Is It Called Spanish Flu?

In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately. Young, old, sick and otherwise-healthy people all became infected — at ...
As World War I came to a close, the ultra-deadly Spanish flu reared its ugly head, sweeping through entire cities and ...
We're losing living connections to past events and valuable perspectives of older generations that help shape our ...
When the 1925 Serum Run to Nome is recalled, they almost always think of sled dogs cutting across frozen Alaskan wilderness, ...
Harrison Ruffin Tyler died Memorial Day weekend, 2025, in a Richmond, Va., nursing home. His death made few headlines beyond ...
Scattered across southwest Saskatchewan are several ecclesiastical buildings, and Gravelbourg is not the only bilingual ...
Harrison Ruffin Tyler died Memorial Day weekend, 2025, in a Richmond, Va., nursing home. His death made few headlines beyond ...
Local historian Derby Gisclair will talk about epidemics that shaped New Orleans, plus more of the latest events and ...
Under President Donald Trump’s administration and its aggressive immigration crackdown, the U.S. population could decline in ...
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Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota ...
Depopulation — unremitting, long-term population decline — promises to be the 21st century’s most important demographic trend ...