John Barry, author of the 2004 book, The Great Influenza, draws parallels between today's pandemic and the flu of 1918. In both cases, he says, "the outbreak was trivialized for a long time." ...

Photos from the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic 56 photos The last time a health emergency so imperiled American politics was in 1918, when the Spanish flu killed 675,000 Americans and was dubbed the ...

The flu pandemic seemed to affect young people in particular, for reasons that historians and scientists are still debating. When the first recorded cases arrived, World War I was raging, and the ...

In 1918, an influenza virus known as the Spanish flu killed over 50 million people all over the world, making it the deadliest pandemic in modern history. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

HEALTH Skeletons from 1918 flu pandemic reveal clues about those most likely to die, study finds New research seems to contradict a long-standing belief that young, healthy people were most at risk ...

The claim: The 1918 flu pandemic was caused by vaccines. An Oct. 19 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) includes a video with the title “The good ol’ Kansas Flu.”“In 1918, 50 to 100 ...

The 1918 influenza pandemic was a surprising exception. Prior to the 1918 pandemic, Black people in the U.S. died of respiratory diseases at vastly higher rates than white people.

On at least two occasions, in June 2023 and June 2024, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he had read " articles" and "evidence" linking the start of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic ...

“Instead, we found that this pandemic, like many others across history, disproportionately killed frail people.” Questioning folk wisdom with science. In just two years, the flu pandemic of 1918 ...

More information: John P.R. Eicher, A Provincial Pandemic: European Ignorance of the 1918 "Spanish" Influenza as a Shared Event, Contemporary European History (2025). DOI: 10.1017 ...

The 1918 influenza pandemic remains the deadliest in modern history, killing tens of millions — and leaving scientists with enduring questions about how it began.

For years, internet users have shared a rumor about U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. falsely claiming that vaccines caused the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic known as the Spanish flu.