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This article was first published Nov. 2, 2005. The disease didn’t discriminate. It took the lives of Chaska baker Mathias Buesgens, 25, and Chanhassen farmer Reinhard Molnau, 32, and a young ...

Furthermore, the flu virus of 1918 killed quickly—there are many cases of documented mortality in under 48 hours. A large-scale epidemic could overwhelm our modern, sophisticated medical system.

Courtesy: CDC/Dr. Terrence Tumpey Despite recent advances in microbiology, early 20th-century scientists struggled to understand the source of the deadly 1918 influenza epidemic and how best to ...

The 1918 influenza pandemic killed 20 50 million people worldwide, including many healthy young adults. A team from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) extracted viral RNA from autopsy ...

The Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 brought with it a slew of folk-medicine remedies. After all, the flu was scary—and there was ...

It's flu season right now, and the U.S. is in the midst of a wave that's straining hospitals. But not all influenza is the ...

One family in Bristol, Tennessee, lost four daughters — all between the ages of 18 months and 14 years — during the Spanish ...

The worst flu season in American history led to the building of Manteca’s first hospital 106 years ago. The severe influenza epidemic started in 1918.

Hilleman was born a year after the notorious 1918 influenza pandemic swept ... Within a month of learning about Hong Kong’s influenza epidemic, Hilleman had requested, obtained and tested ...