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Mysteries From The Morgue: How a community came together to squelch Spanish influenza

On Oct. 18, 1918, 700 workers of the Berkshire Cotton Manufacturing Co. were out sick with "the grippe," silencing a third of the Berkshire Mills 6,500 looms.Three weeks earlier, the

Kentucky historian compares 1918 flu, COVID-19 pandemics

More Americans have now died from COVID-19 than those killed during the influenza pandemic of 1918.

G7 must donate COVID shots to avoid 1918-scale pandemic disaster -CEPI chief

Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) rich nations must donate COVID-19 shots urgently to avoid an outcome akin to the 1918 flu which killed 50 million people, the head of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) told Reuters. Richard Hatchett, the chief executive of CEPI which co-runs the COVAX vaccine sharing facility, cited the example of Peru, which recently revised its death toll upwards to make it the worst hit country per capita in the world. "It's a moral imperative if we want to avoid situations like Peru, if we want to avoid impacts that could rival those of the 1918 flu, we must send vaccine to countries to protect their health care workers and protect the vulnerable populations now," Hatchett told Reuters in an interview.

Researchers studied century old lungs and found that 1918 Spanish flu virus mutated to become deadlier in later waves.