The outbreak of this influenza virus, also known as Spanish flu, spread with astonishing speed around the world, overwhelming India, and reaching Australia and the remote Pacific islands.

What can the 1918 Flu epidemic teach us about COVID-19, asks Professor Marc Zimmer. CC Magazine: The Spanish Flu didn’t start in Spain. Why did the Iberian country get stuck with the name? Marc Zimmer ...

Five years after the virus was declared a pandemic on March 11, 2025, worldwide deaths from Covid-19 are estimated at 19-36 ...

Spanish Flu. With an influx of American soldiers, the war in Europe was winding down by the fall of 1918 and troops began coming home. With them traveled a new and more deadly version of Spanish flu.

from the 1918 Spanish flu to the latest 2024 H5N1 strains. The University of Melbourne’s Dr Oanh Nguyen, Senior Research Fellow at the Doherty Institute and co-author of the study, explained the ...

Spain was half empty. There are documents from the time that give us testimony, but why do we hardly know anything about this "Spanish flu"? Surely his study and knowledge would have helped us ...