New analysis of the remains of victims of the 1918 influenza pandemic, which killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide, contradicts the widespread belief the flu disproportionately impacted ...

The science of viruses, born out of the 20th century's deadliest pandemic, launched medical thinking in a dramatically new direction, saving countless lives in the decades to come. By Richard ...

Immunization against the flu as we know it today was not practiced in 1918, and thus played no role in ending the pandemic. Exposure to prior strains of the flu may have offered some protection. For ...

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

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. One ...

Historian and author John Barry is dead certain: If there was a vaccine during the deadly 1918 flu pandemic, the line of Americans waiting for a shot would have stretched from coast to coast. “It was ...

Please visit the ‘Drexel’s Response to Coronavirus’ website for the latest public health advisories. In the fall of 1918, a pregnant woman named Naomi Ford visited the Philadelphia department store ...

At this point in the coronavirus pandemic, with more than 32 million infected and more than 980,000 dead worldwide, describing this time as "unprecedented" may sound like nails on a chalkboard. This ...

An emergency hospital at Camp Funston, Kansas during the 1918 influenza pandemic. New research contradicts the widespread belief the flu disproportionately impacted healthy young adults. Hamilton, ON, ...

Actually, the initial wave of deaths from the pandemic in the first half of 1918 was relatively low. It was in the second wave, from October through December of that year, that the highest death rates ...