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 ...

An electron microscope image of the CDC’s recreated 1918 Influenza virus, seen here, 18 hours after infection. Courtesy: CDC/Dr. Terrence Tumpey Despite recent advances in microbiology, early ...

For years, internet users have shared a rumor about U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. falsely claiming that vaccines caused the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic known as the Spanish flu. One ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of the 1918 pandemic involving the Spanish influenza that killed millions worldwide. During the 1918 pandemic, the local newspapers continued to cover ...

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 ...

Influenza victims crowd into an emergency hospital at Camp Funston, a subdivision of Fort Riley in Kansas, in 1918. The flu killed at least 20 million people worldwide. AP FILE PHOTO The calendar says ...

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 ...

(Editor's note: In light of the coronavirus pandemic, The Citizen is using its regular Look Back feature to republish its coverage of the 1918 flu pandemic, and how it affected Auburn and the ...

PHILADELPHIA — At Sunday family dinners, the grandchildren would beg to hear that story again, the one about her twins in the baby carriage, and one of them was dead, and what did she do. This was ...

The calendar says 2009, but our fears say it is 1918. The front page tells us about Mexico, and a new strain of influenza that has killed more than a dozen people there and spread to the United States ...