Should I use soap and water or wear a mask? Should I take the train? Will they close the schools? What will this do to local businesses? Aspen’s residents faced the 1918 influenza pandemic with the ...
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 ...
Crain’s Cleveland Business: John Grabowski, the Krieger-Mueller Joint Professor in History, discussed the similarities—and differences—between the 1918 flu pandemic and the COVID-19 pandemic.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - As World War I raged on, the City of Charleston was battling a fast increase in Spanish Flu cases on Oct. 6, 1918. The first case of the infection was discovered at an Army ...
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.
Camp Pike, 1918: The main base hospital complex covered some 20-acres to serve the many thousands of enlisted men and the 1,500 commissioned officers at the base training for World War I. The “bright ...