If the outbreak of COVID-19 has a bullseye in the U.S., it's Washington State. Schools and universities closed, a gauge of alarm here. Seen in Seattle: a lot of masks. But not for the first time.

The skeletons of people who were alive during the 1918 flu pandemic have revealed new clues about people who were more likely to die from the virus. Known as the deadliest in history, the 1918 flu ...

Spinney is the author of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World. “We were leaden-footed for weeks, to the point where each step meant a determined effort,” Miss Goring ...

BYU students attend an assembly in College Hall wearing hygienic masks during the 1918 influenza epidemic. Hundreds of people who died in Utah County then can now be found in an online database ...

Election Day 2020 will be unprecedented in any number of ways, but it won’t be the first time the U.S. has held elections during a global pandemic—or the first time a public-health crisis has changed ...

The claim: The 1918 flu pandemic became known as the “Spanish flu” because wartime censors minimized reports of the illness while the Spanish press did not. On March 20, the Facebook page Unbelievable ...

We have just commemorated the centenary of the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918, which lasted only a few months but claimed 50 million to 100 million lives worldwide, including 675,000 in the United States.

The 1918 flu, also known as the Spanish flu, spread worldwide during 1918 and 1919. In the U.S. it was first identified in military personnel in the spring of 1918 and mostly affected younger ...

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 ...

When the novel coronavirus pandemic hit Asia, people across the region were quick to wear masks, with some places like Taiwan and the Philippines even making them mandatory in certain scenarios. But ...