Spanish flu pandemic was caused by a particularly virulent strain of influenza virus. It infected 500 million people, caused ...

Late in the spring of 1918 the Spanish wire ... commonly called "Spanish flu" killed more people than the guns of World War I. Estimates put the worldwide death toll at 21,642,274.

The death toll from the flu of 1918 was more than a half-million people ... an emerging virus could be spread today at a rate that is orders of magnitude faster than the rate of spread eight ...

Brevig Mission was just one place that was part of a global tragedy, one of the worst ever to befall humanity: the influenza pandemic of 1918-19 ... unusually high mortality rates of the new ...

The Jordan Independent’s earliest mentions of the 1918 influenza pandemic, which within the following four months would kill thousands of people in Minnesota and millions worldwide, urged ...

In the late autumn of 1918, as the flu cut a deadly path through entire towns and villages, Vaughan’s observation of mortality rates from around the nation yielded a horrifying equation.