“When the flu came in 1918, it turned few heads,” begins an upcoming documentary on the pandemic’s impact in Richmond. A recruit at Camp Lee became ill with the flu in mid-September 1918, with illness ...

Seasonal viruses were as common as blizzards, but in 1918, a more fearsome disease spread across Montana. Influenza during this time killed more people than WWI and II combined! Nobody from the ...

In September of 1918, soldiers at an army base near Boston suddenly began to die. The cause of death was identified as influenza, but it was unlike any strain ever seen. As the killer virus spread ...

The death toll and economic damage associated with flu highlight its role as one of the most harmful viruses in history.

This is the companion book to the television documentary "Influenza 1918" aired on PBS's documentary series "The American Experience." https://siris-libraries.si.edu ...