The outbreak of this influenza virus, also known as Spanish flu, spread with astonishing ... also served to obscure the unusually high mortality rates of the new virus. At this early stage ...

This provided the newly arrived virus a feast of victims, resulting in a tenfold higher death rate due to the flu than was observed in the more careful St. Louis over the same period. CC: Does the ...

The number of deaths due to the flu surpassed the number of deaths from the coronavirus for the first time ever last month, according to weekly data from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Between enemy fire and the sickness sweeping the trenches, most soldiers thought they would feel the cold finger of death in one form ... earning its nickname: Spanish Flu. With an influx of ...

Partial CDC data suggest that influenza deaths may have already reached as high as 2% of deaths for the week ending on Feb. 1, also surpassing COVID-19 mortality nationwide which was holding at around ...

Influenza vaccination significantly reduces flu-related morbidity and mortality across all age groups, according to a large-scale Spanish study ... reduces infection rates and flu-related ...

A man spraying an anti-flu preparation on a London General Omnibus Co bus to try to kill the Spanish flu virus in ... of businesses and schools. The death rate was lower in Manchester than in ...

In all, nearly 2,400 people died of Spanish flu in Hawaii between 1918 and 1920. The death rate impacted Native Hawaiians the hardest at 11 percent mortality, Filipinos at 6 percent mortality ...