There is a cemetery in a small railroad town in northern Ohio where I grew up that tells a sliver of the story of the great ‘Spanish’ influenza pandemic of 1918. One section of the cemetery is ...

COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

Brevig Mission was just one place that was part of a global tragedy, one of the worst ever to befall humanity: the influenza pandemic of 1918-19. The outbreak of this influenza virus, also known ...

Hilleman, however, needed eggs not for his breakfast, but to make the vaccines that were key to stopping a potential influenza pandemic. Hilleman was born a year after the notorious 1918 influenza ...

had already survived one global pandemic. And she was about to survive another. In 1918, then about 6 years old, Asher contracted the Spanish flu, a deadly strain of influenza estimated to have ...

The 1918 flu pandemic, which killed 50 to 100 million ... and he was back in Pakistan for their burials. It really sent shockwaves of failures in detect and control systems and also showed that ...

Their availability is arguably the biggest difference between today’s pandemic and the 1918 influenza pandemic. That historical event, some medical experts say, can help frame the current one ...