The worst influenza pandemic of the last century occurred in 1918. Called “the Spanish Flu,”
the illness caused at least 30 000 (some estimate 50 000) deaths in Canada. The following …

From National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin comes a fascinating look at the history and
science of the deadly 1918 flu pandemic--and its chilling and timely resemblance to the …

In late January 1918, Dr. Loren Miner, a country physician in rural Kansas, saw the first
cases of an influenza of a violent nature. With a warning to the US Public Health Service, his …

Camp Devens is near Boston, and has about 50,000 men, or did have before this epidemic
broke loose. It also has the Base Hospital for Div [ision] of the N [orth] East. This epidemic …

In the final months of 1918 and the earliest months of 1919, a pandemic—of all such tidal
waves of infection arithmetically the worst ever in absolute numbers of sick and dead …

The article presents a reprint of the essay" An Essay on the Influenza Epidemic of 1918 in
Philadelphia," by doctor George AF Lundberg, Sr., which shares the author's personal …

1918, WHILE THE ALLIED and Central Powers were engaged in the man-made disaster of
World War I, it was necessary to battle a still greater enemy. When one thinks of natural …

In the history of the United States, which month of which year did the most Americans die?
When I asked this question to a few of my friends I got a variety of answers. The answers …

In the spring of 1918, students at the Haskell Institute, a federal Indian boarding school in
Lawrence, Kansas, began falling victim to a mysterious illness. Although disease outbreaks …