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 ...

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 ...

“Churches, Schools, Shows closed.” “Flu epidemic ravages fast.” “Lid to go on city today.” Those headlines are familiar today, but they screamed across newspapers more than 100 years ago during the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has now killed roughly the same amount of people who died from the 1918 Spanish flu. According to Johns Hopkins, more than 675,000 Americans have died from COVID-19. The Centers ...

WILMETTE, Ill. (WLS) -- Norma Bratschi Hoza turned 101 in February, a milestone she celebrated with her large family. Less than two months later, she was diagnosed with COVID-19 and died on April 2, ...

The calendar says 2009, but our fears say it is 1918. The front page tells us about Mexico, and a new strain of influenza that has killed more than a dozen people there and spread to the United States ...