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 ...
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How the 1918 flu killed tens of millions
The Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 to 1920 was one of the deadliest events in human history. It spread rapidly across the world ...
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 ...
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'It actually ended the war': Trump demonstrates his ignorance of basic history, believes the Spanish flu ended World War I
During a reception and dinner event for business leaders in Japan several weeks ago in October, Donald Trump claimed that ...
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 ...
Growing up and being educated in Ireland, I was well aware of the Great (Spanish) Flu and the enormous mortality it inflicted worldwide (“America Forgot the 1918 Flu. Will We Also Forget Covid?” ...
The Spanish flu of 1918 and 1919 became a worldwide pandemic that consumed the lives of many a young person beginning to find their footing in the world. Arthur E. Thompson, a native of Cole County, ...
Introduction: An ill wind -- A victim and a survivor -- "Knock me down" fever -- The killer without a name -- The invisible enemy -- One deadly summer -- Know thy enemy -- The fangs of death -- Like ...
Small, round, numbered markers, many now illegible, were used to mark the graves of some influenza victims that flooded Lincoln undertakers in 1918 and were buried in Wyuka Cemetery. (ERIC ...
Introduction : the purple death -- "The Yanks are coming" -- The Spanish lady -- "Blue as huckleberries and spitting blood" -- "Over the top" : a brief history of World War I -- "Over there" : the ...
Since early 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic raged both across the U.S. and the world, various photographs of masks worn during the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic were shared online, as we noted with ...
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