In 1918, newspapers in Lincoln and worldwide were dominated by World War I stories. In late 1917 and early 1918, a new strain of influenza was born, possibly in China. In May 1918, a reported 8 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of the 1918 pandemic involving the Spanish influenza that killed millions worldwide. During the 1918 pandemic, the local newspapers continued to cover ...

This may sound like what we’re going through now with COVID-19, but it happened in La Crosse more than 100 years ago as part of the Spanish flu pandemic, which hit the Coulee Region — and the rest of ...

This flu season has hit the young adult segment of the populace unexpectedly hard. Nearly a century ago, locals primarily between the ages of 20 and 40 were the primary victims of the horrible Spanish ...

The “super flu” behind outbreaks in the US and UK is a new variant of influenza A H3N2, subclade K. Existing vaccines appear ...

A pair of lungs preserved over a century ago from a deceased Spanish flu patient has helped unravel the genetic adaptations undergone by the virus to spread across Europe during the start of the 1918 ...

Part I: An abrupt introduction to Spanish influenza -- The great shadow -- Part 2: Spanish influenza: The first wave--spring and summer, 1918 -- The advance of the influenza virus -- Three explosions- ...

The spread of disease is not routinely connected to climate change or the environment. However, ignoring this connection ...