Spanish flu has become synonymous with a viral apocalypse and, now, with the Covid-19 pandemic. This false equivalence depends largely on a spurious statistic that should never have been published.

The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic was caused by a particularly virulent strain of influenza virus. It infected 500 million people, caused around 50 million deaths, and its impact was so severe that ...

RFK Jr. has suggested vaccines caused 1918 Spanish flu pandemic at least twice Kennedy made the claim at least twice during his 2024 presidential election campaign.

While “the Spanish flu” remains the best-known moniker for the cause of the 1918 pandemic, the illness took on other names, depending on the country.

The following chart created by Newsweek using Flourish shows global cases of H5N1 bird flu in humans from 2015 to 2023, according to WHO data.

A university professor and two students recreated a virus identical to the one that caused the devastating 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. If they can do it, so can terrorists.

The number of deaths in West Africa continues to rise at an exponential rate. These charts help explain the latest trends.

Century-old pathology samples, passed down through generations, may rewrite the history of the 1918 Spanish flu — altering our understanding of when it began and how it spread.

More than a century ago, epidemiologist Dr. Thomas Tuttle prescribed face masks and social distancing to slow the influenza pandemic. He made a lot of enemies—but it worked.

Data from the Alabama Department of Public Health shows there were about 7,000 more deaths than births in Alabama in 2020. It also shows there were 10,605 more total deaths in 2020 than in 2019.

How Chicago Dealt With the 1918 Spanish Flu The Health Commissioner didn’t close schools or churches, but he did ask police to arrest anyone who coughed or sneezed on the street.