From the closing of borders to mandatory quarantines, governments around the world are taking drastic steps to try to contain the coronavirus pandemic. Past outbreaks provide a blueprint for ...

The 1918-19 influenza pandemic infected 500 million people worldwide and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million. Some estimates go as high as 100 million, including some 675,000 Americans. About ...

The flu epidemic of 1918 ranks with the Black Death of the Middle Ages as one of the deadliest contagions of all times. The virus swept across the Earth, killing an estimated 20 million people in ...

This year’s flu season has been tough. But it pales in comparison to the horrors of 1918. One hundred years ago, the United States was swept into a global influenza epidemic that one source called ...

Federal officials urged widespread vaccinations after swine flu broke out among soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey, killing one of the 14 diagnosed with the illness. But the program ...

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 ...

Health authorities seemed desperate for encouraging news when influenza swept through Billings in 1918. When no flu deaths had been reported in a 24-hour period, The Billings Gazette reported on Oct.

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 ...