Despite its name, Spanish flu did not originate in Spain. The label stuck because Spanish newspapers were the first to report the outbreak. Spain was a neutral nation during World War One ...
The Maui News reported in 1919 that “Kula San ... and this new illness became known as the Spanish flu. By July 1918, Oahu military camps reported over 600 soldiers infected with the illness ...
one letter said Spanish flu also afflicted some people with a psychosis that could lead to murder and suicide. Newspaper reports detailed some of these deaths, which the courts attributed to ...
Beds are lining Spanish hospital corridors after a flu virus continues to spread across the country. Influenza A cases are ...
Multiple state agencies, as well as the Little Rock Zoo, are continuing to monitor the spread of the avian flu in Arkansas.
America's divisiveness over masks is alarmingly familiar: Everyone from streetcar conductors to physicians railed against masks during the 1918 pandemic. Said one public official: "Under no ...