The biggest reason providers cite for not recommending vaccines to patients’ partners is simply not thinking to do so.

Patients were isolated, schools were closed ... He, too, used the example of the Spanish flu, saying Philadelphia didn’t move as quickly as St. Louis to enact social distancing – which led to ...

From the mid-1910s to the 1930s, a mysterious "sleeping sickness" struck over 1 million people around the world, causing ...

Most of us have a desire to forget the traumatic COVID-19 pandemic. Yet Memorial Day and Veterans Day beckons us to remember ...

In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately.

Conclusions There were demographic, ethnic and clinical differences between patients admitted with pandemic H1N1 infection and those hospitalised during seasonal influenza activity. Despite national ...

Photograph by Betttmann, Getty Born in August 1919, at the height of the Spanish flu, Hilleman was raised ... to bring the benefits of his research to patients. By the end of his career, he ...

An intranasally administered IgM protects against antigenically distinct subtypes of influenza A viruses. Nature Communications , 2025; 16 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-59294-0 Cite This Page : ...

More information: John P.R. Eicher, A Provincial Pandemic: European Ignorance of the 1918 "Spanish" Influenza as a Shared Event, Contemporary European History (2025). DOI: 10.1017 ...

A version of this story appears in the September 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. Philadelphia detected its first case of a deadly, fast-spreading strain of influenza on September 17, 1918.