Pvt. Albert Gitchell was sick. For this there was no doubt. When he reported to the camp infirmary on the morning of March 11, 1918, he lamented that he was feeling hot and achy. The medic on duty ...

There is a cemetery in a small railroad town in northern Ohio where I grew up that tells a sliver of the story of the great ‘Spanish’ influenza ... the nightmare of World War I was finally ...

(Explore the memorials of World War I.) A magnified ... thousand Australians. The Spanish flu did not strike in Australia until 1919. Quarantine camps like this one, in Wallangarra, Queensland ...

Mark Twain, American author The world is a curious place. Every day we make history by doing the same thing we did yesterday. We ...

The truth behind the Spanish flu has been revealed. On the KBS 11TV show 'Secrets of Celebrity Soldiers' aired on the 2th, ...

Blood was first stored successfully during World War One. Doctors could now give blood ... contagious diseases would have usually died. Spanish Influenza (flu) was first reported in March 1918.

East Tennessee State University researchers have examined the devastating effects of the 1918 Spanish flu in Appalachia, uncovering lessons that resonate in the wake of COVID-19.

The 1918 Spanish ... strain of influenza virus. It infected 500 million people, caused around 50 million deaths, and its impact was so severe that global life expectancy fell dramatically. It claimed ...

Also Read: ‘One Of The Hardest ... According to Guinness World Records, “Maria lived through the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 as well as the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), which she said ...