Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although researchers continue to debate the exact location where the pandemic began, there is no credible evidence that anything ...

A mess cook's sick call visit at Camp Funston became the first recorded military case of an outbreak that killed more U.S. soldiers than the Germans did in WWI.

In a breakthrough for influenza research, scientists have discovered immune cells that can recognize influenza (flu) viruses even as they mutate, raising hopes for a longer-lasting vaccine and a ...

In the last hard days of World War I, just two weeks before world powers agreed to an armistice, a doctor wrote a letter to a friend. The doctor was stationed at the US Army’s Camp Devens west of ...

Have you had your flu shot yet? If not, history suggests it might be a good idea. That’s because today we think back to Sept. 16, 1918, when doctors at the Navy base reported the first documented case ...

In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately.

The Spanish flu emerged as World War I was ending, but it would kill far more people than the conflict itself. Infecting roughly a third of the global population, it spread with terrifying speed. Some ...

Seasonal viruses were as common as blizzards, but in 1918, a more fearsome disease spread across Montana. Influenza during this time killed more people than WWI and II combined! Nobody from the ...

There was an infectious disease called the Spanish flu spreading rapidly, but the city still held its parade, "Despite public health officials warning that it would be a bad idea to gather large ...

When young, healthy soldiers began getting sick by the dozens in March, 1918, military physicians were baffled by what might be causing it. Courtesy: NARA At Fort Riley, Kansas, an Army private ...