American forts experienced a massive expansion as the entire nation mobilized ... (What is the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic?) The Spanish flu strain killed its victims with ...

New drugs, such as zanamivir (Relenza), can inhibit the ability of the flu virus to proliferate by blocking the activity of the neuraminidase enzyme. When the Spanish flu pandemic hit, doctors ...

What can the 1918 Flu epidemic teach us about COVID-19, asks Professor Marc Zimmer. CC Magazine: The Spanish Flu didn’t start in Spain. Why did the Iberian country get stuck with the name? Marc Zimmer ...

The influenza commonly called "Spanish flu" killed more people than the guns of World War I. Estimates put the worldwide death toll at 21,642,274. Some one billion people were affected by the ...

prompted first by Seattle’s successful bid for an NHL expansion team. These stories introduced some readers to the Spanish flu, and as recently as last year their reaction would have been almost ...

Periodically, the yearly flu transforms into a particularly virulent strain, like the Spanish flu that killed millions of people in 1918. How do these pandemic strains arise? Aa Aa Aa Although ...

A man spraying an anti-flu preparation on a London General Omnibus Co bus to try to kill the Spanish flu virus in London in 1920 Nobody is certain about the origins of Spanish influenza (usually ...

Spain was half empty. There are documents from the time that give us testimony, but why do we hardly know anything about this "Spanish flu"? Surely his study and knowledge would have helped us ...

Isolation wards were set up at Malulani Hospital during the Spanish flu outbreak on Maui. The bubonic plague quarantine was lifted in April 1900. Maui suffered isolated child deaths from ...