The influenza ward at Walter Reed Hospital during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 Library of Congress The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 reached just about every continent throughout the globe.

The 1918 flu pandemic became one of the deadliest events in human history, killing an estimated 50 to 100 million people in just 18 months. At Camp Devens in Massachusetts, 6,000 men were crammed into ...

Will this pandemic ever end? Well, the fact is — all pandemics DO end. But how do we, as a society, decide we’ve reached that point? There aren’t great templates for this — except one. The end of the ...

November 29, 1918 - Influenza wreaked havoc and killed thousands in Nebraska in 1918. The flu took hold in the state in October 1918 which lead to statewide closings of schools, churches and anywhere ...

The 1918 influenza pandemic was one of the deadliest disasters in human history. Spreading rapidly across the world during the final months of World War I, it infected hundreds of millions. Entire ...