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 ...
The joining of genetic sequences from pig and human influenza created the deadly strain that killed up to 40 million people around the world in 1918 and 1919, say Australian researchers. Unlike other ...
In the winter of 1918, an illness was spreading in Haskell County, Kansas. The remote farming community in the state's southwestern corner sat roughly 300 miles from anywhere most Americans would ...