Kennedy Jr. falsely claiming that vaccines caused the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic known as the Spanish flu. One Facebook ...

“Scientific Nursing Halting Epidemic,” an Inquirer headline ... “other bronchial diseases and not the so-called Spanish influenza...[caused] the illness of the majority of persons who ...

The first wave of the pandemic had arrived. (What is the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic?) The Spanish flu strain killed its victims with a swiftness never seen before. In the United ...

The Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 brought with it a slew of folk-medicine remedies. After all, the flu was scary—and there was ...

And now that they’ve closed the schools to keep the epidemic from spreading ... all came down with “Spanish flu.” It was the youngest, Lavinia, who succumbed. That was a shocking plot ...

Deciphering the 1918 Epidemic Because influenza viruses were not isolated and cultured until the 1930s, it was not possible to study the origin of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic at the time of this ...

María Branyas Morera was born in San Francisco in 1907 and moved to Spain in 1915, during World War I and shortly before the Spanish Flu epidemic, according to Guinness World Records Anna Lazarus ...

The timing of the epidemic’s arrival in Philadelphia ... White announced that he had developed a vaccine that would prevent Spanish influenza. In short order, over 10,000 complete series of ...

And as the summer of 1918 turned to fall, the epidemic lost its mildness: people started to die. The influenza commonly called "Spanish flu" killed more people than the guns of World War I.