Have you had your flu shot yet? If not, history suggests it might be a good idea. That’s because today we think back to Sept. 16, 1918, when doctors at the Navy base reported the first documented case ...

The influenza ward at Walter Reed Hospital during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 Library of Congress The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 reached just about every continent throughout the globe.

The Covid “pandemic’ was nothing compared to the greatest killer of humanity, The Black Death of the 14th century, and the next in line, the Spanish Influenza, also called the Spanish Flu of 1918-1920 ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - As World War I raged on, the City of Charleston was battling a fast increase in Spanish Flu cases on Oct. 6, 1918. The first case of the infection was discovered at an Army ...

Introduction : the elephant in the room -- Part one: The unwalled city -- Coughs and sneezes -- The monads of Leibniz -- Part two: Anatomy of a pandemic -- Ripples on a pond -- Like a thief in the ...

The Spanish flu of 1918 and 1919 became a worldwide pandemic that consumed the lives of many a young person beginning to find their footing in the world. Arthur E. Thompson, a native of Cole County, ...

Although researchers continue to debate the exact location where the pandemic began, there is no credible evidence that anything other than H1N1, a type of influenza A virus, was responsible for it.