John Eicher, associate professor of history at Penn State Altoona, has published an article on the 1918 influenza pandemic in the journal Contemporary European History. Analyzing nearly 1,000 memories ...

Scientists in Switzerland have cracked open a century-old viral mystery by decoding the genome of the 1918 influenza virus from a preserved Zurich patient. This ancient RNA revealed that the virus had ...

Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH's Medical Collection to decode the genome of the virus responsible for the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic ...

For thousands of American families, it is the pandemic in the attic -- stored away and forgotten along with the keepsakes and fading photos of past generations. A new documentary explores that very ...

November 29, 1918 - Influenza wreaked havoc and killed thousands in Nebraska in 1918. The flu took hold in the state in October 1918 which lead to statewide closings of schools, churches and anywhere ...