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 ...

Scientists in Switzerland have cracked open a century-old viral mystery by decoding the genome of the 1918 influenza virus from a preserved Zurich patient. This ancient RNA revealed that the virus had ...

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 ...

Nurses at Creighton University during Spanish flu pandemic in 1918. After four weeks cooped up indoors because of a deadly pandemic, the people of Omaha wanted to party. During October 1918, Omahans ...

For example, in 2004, historian and pandemic researcher John M. Barry argued that the real origin site was not Camp Funston but around 270 miles southwest in Kansas' Haskell County, where people ...