Schuylkill County families faced two wars in 1918 — one in Europe, the other at home. The Pottsville Republican and other newspapers ran lists of county residents who died in World War I in France and ...

A Message from the editor / Laurence D. Reed -- -- 1918 and 1919: a tale of two pandemics / Stephen C. Redd, Thomas R. Frieden, Anne Schuchat, and Peter A. Briss -- The 1918-1919 influenza pandemic in ...

This year’s flu season has been tough. But it pales in comparison to the horrors of 1918. One hundred years ago, the United States was swept into a global influenza epidemic that one source called ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although researchers continue to debate the exact location where the pandemic began, there is no credible evidence that anything ...

An electron microscope image of the CDC’s recreated 1918 Influenza virus, seen here, 18 hours after infection. Courtesy: CDC/Dr. Terrence Tumpey Despite recent advances in microbiology, early ...

"Influenza has apparently become domesticated with us" : influenza, medicine and the public, 1890-1918 -- "The whole world seems up-side-down" : patients, families and communities confront the ...

PHILADELPHIA — At Sunday family dinners, the grandchildren would beg to hear that story again, the one about her twins in the baby carriage, and one of them was dead, and what did she do. This was ...

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of the 1918 pandemic involving the Spanish influenza that killed millions worldwide. During the 1918 pandemic, the local newspapers continued to cover ...

This flu season has hit the young adult segment of the populace unexpectedly hard. Nearly a century ago, locals primarily between the ages of 20 and 40 were the primary victims of the horrible Spanish ...