(What is the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic?) The Spanish flu strain killed its victims with a swiftness never seen before. In the United States stories abounded of people waking up ...

Spanish journalists reported the deadly sickness ... Civilians began wearing masks and hospitals and morgues began to fill with flu victims. Governments enacted curfews and some went so far ...

CC Magazine: The Spanish Flu didn’t start in Spain. Why did the Iberian country get stuck with the name? Marc Zimmer: It’s commonly believed that the 1918 pandemic started in Camp Funston, Kansas. The ...

Specifically, in 1997, both frozen and formalin-fixed lung tissue from Spanish flu victims was used to extract nucleic acid and sequence the 1918 influenza genome (Tautenberger et al., 1997).

After that, victims eventually suffocated. No one knows where the Spanish flu started, but recent studies show that the virus may have emerged when strains of pig and human flu infected the same ...

According to the WHO, flu causes 3 to 5 million cases of severe illness and up to 650,000 respiratory deaths each year, particularly among vulnerable populations. The University of Melbourne's ...

The influenza commonly called "Spanish flu" killed more people than the guns ... except that it was contagious. After deaths from the disease began in earnest, many local governing bodies closed ...

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 ...