Introduction: An ill wind -- A victim and a survivor -- "Knock me down" fever -- The killer without a name -- The invisible enemy -- One deadly summer -- Know thy enemy -- The fangs of death -- Like ...

The death toll and economic damage associated with flu highlight its role as one of the most harmful viruses in history.

Schuylkill County families faced two wars in 1918 — one in Europe, the other at home. The Pottsville Republican and other newspapers ran lists of county residents who died in World War I in France and ...

Two page paper pamphlet, stapled, with red cover. Dated 28th October, 1918. In his pamphlet, "The Unburied Dead," Guy Beckley Stearns, M.D., discusses homeopathic remedies employed in the influenza ...

Scientists were able to identify the antibodies that still circulate in the blood of survivors of the deadly 1918 flu outbreak and found that they still proved to be a potent antidote to the disease.

In the Quad-Cities, 5-year-old Alfred Russell was hardly alone. From the first reported flu death in early October 1918 to the epidemic’s wane in the summer of 1919, thousands were infected across ...