I am a historian of pandemics. Like an accountant preparing his clientele’s income taxes, you might say, “This is my busy season!” From 2005 to 2007, I led a group of historians at the University of ...

If the outbreak of COVID-19 has a bullseye in the U.S., it's Washington State. Schools and universities closed, a gauge of alarm here. Seen in Seattle: a lot of masks. But not for the first time.

Spinney is the author of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World. As the world grapples with a global health emergency that is COVID-19, many are drawing parallels with a ...

Look at the dates: 1890-1918; 1878-1918; 1896-1918; 1917-1918 ... Every person buried on this snowy slope in Barre, Vt, died within days, weeks of each other. "It's pretty humbling," said Brian ...

Spinney is the author of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World. “We were leaden-footed for weeks, to the point where each step meant a determined effort,” Miss Goring ...

In September of 1918, soldiers at an army base near Boston suddenly began to die. The cause of death was identified as influenza, but it was unlike any strain ever seen. As the killer virus spread ...

An electron microscope image of the CDC’s recreated 1918 Influenza virus, seen here, 18 hours after infection. Courtesy: CDC/Dr. Terrence Tumpey Despite recent advances in microbiology, early ...

The claim: The 1918 flu pandemic became known as the “Spanish flu” because wartime censors minimized reports of the illness while the Spanish press did not. On March 20, the Facebook page Unbelievable ...

We have just commemorated the centenary of the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918, which lasted only a few months but claimed 50 million to 100 million lives worldwide, including 675,000 in the United States.

When the novel coronavirus pandemic hit Asia, people across the region were quick to wear masks, with some places like Taiwan and the Philippines even making them mandatory in certain scenarios. But ...

A century before the coronavirus disease, COVID-19, dominated the global consciousness, another deadly virus rampaged across the world. Researchers have since established that the Spanish Flu of 1918, ...

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 ...