"There was all this celebration, joy and relief at the end of the war that collides with death and grief." One letter told of how Spanish flu left people with "disturbed minds" - some sufferers ...

Death Records examined data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to understand and explain the evolution in ...

The influenza commonly called "Spanish flu" killed more people than the guns of World War I. Estimates put the worldwide death toll at 21,642,274. Some one billion people were affected by the ...

Spanish flu was a pandemic that peaked in 1918, heaping more death and misery on populations already devastated by World War One. It is believed to have infected about a third of the global ...

The worst plague in history was the Black Death, which may have killed up to ... After the devastation of the first world war came the Spanish flu. It did not actually come from Spain, but this ...