Although researchers continue to debate the exact location where the pandemic began, there is no credible evidence that anything other than H1N1, a type of influenza A virus, was responsible for it.

Please visit the ‘Drexel’s Response to Coronavirus’ website for the latest public health advisories. In the fall of 1918, a pregnant woman named Naomi Ford visited the Philadelphia department store ...

In the fall of 1918, Edward Kidder Graham, the president of the University of North Carolina, tried to reassure anxious parents. The Spanish flu was spreading rapidly, but Graham insisted the ...

COVID-19 isn't the first pandemic Orel Borgesca had to get through. The coronavirus pandemic may be forcing millions to adjust to stay-at-home orders, but for Orel Borgeson, this isn’t the first ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Researchers have found out what made the 1918 flu pandemic so deadly -- a group of three genes that lets the virus invade the lungs and cause pneumonia. They mixed ...

A Message from the editor / Laurence D. Reed -- -- 1918 and 1919: a tale of two pandemics / Stephen C. Redd, Thomas R. Frieden, Anne Schuchat, and Peter A. Briss -- The 1918-1919 influenza pandemic in ...

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 ...

As the U.S. surpass 675,000 COVID-19 deaths, we look back at the 1918 pandemic. Editors note: Some of the images below are animations showing two images and may take longer to load. There are strong ...