Despite becoming known as the Spanish flu, the first recorded cases were ... It was here in early March that a feverish soldier reported to the infirmary. Within a few hours more than a hundred ...

Blood transfusions were sometimes given to soldiers with burns and skin damage, saving more lives. Spanish Influenza (flu) was first reported in March 1918. It was an illness caught by one in ...

The Spanish flu was a new strain of the influenza virus ... It gained a foothold among soldiers in the trenches of Europe, and would eventually infect a third of the world's population and kill ...

A university professor and two students recreated a virus identical to the one that caused the devastating 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. If they can do it, so can terrorists. “The Terrorism Warning ...

The influenza commonly called "Spanish flu" killed more people than the guns ... About 57,000 American soldiers died from influenza while the U.S. was at war; about 53,500 died in battle.

After the devastation of the first world war came the Spanish flu. It did not actually come ... aided by the movement of hundreds of thousands of soldiers to far-off battlefields.

soldiers from the front lines began returning home. But they brought with them the most unwelcome souvenir — the Spanish flu. It was so deadly, so virulent, that a person could be well in the ...

How Spanish flu tracked so was a mystery ... spread from a farming community to a nearby army base. More than 1,000 soldiers at the base were hospitalized. From the Smithsonian: “[Though ...