In 1918, among the many other elements of confusion about the pandemic, there was widespread misinformation about the reasons for a disease’s spread. At the time, the idea of eugenics was quite ...

But a look back at the influenza pandemic of 1918 reveals that a chaotic White ... The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History, tells TIME. “Wilson wanted the focus to remain on the war ...

"The 1918 pandemic was the most severe pandemic that we have on record," said Adalja. "We had no ICUs at that time. We had no antivirals, had no vaccines for flu. We had no idea that the flu was ...

But one of the biggest differences between the 1918 pandemic and this one is duration. The 1918 disease usually affected a given community for about six to eight weeks, and restrictions generally ...

This mutation-by-mutation analysis of the 1918 flu virus would have been impossible to imagine at the time of the pandemic. Doctors then hadn’t even figured out that influenza was caused by a virus.

John Barry, author of the 2004 book, The Great Influenza, draws parallels between today's pandemic and the flu of 1918. In both cases, he says, "the outbreak was trivialized for a long time.

The idea is biologically plausible and historically grounded — and it reframes how we think about the origin of pandemics.

The 1918 pandemic pushed researchers to look more closely ... should be undertaken on the cause of influenza? … Has not the time arrived to launch a campaign and to come to grips with the ...

Colleges and universities, for instance, acted quickly to enact isolation techniques learned in the 1918 pandemic to limit the 1928 virus’s spread. At the same time, the high levels of flu ...

A misunderstanding about the microbe that actually causes the flu created a ripple effect that changed the future of U.S. drug development, clinical trials, and pandemic preparedness. A woman ...

The 1918 influenza pandemic was a surprising exception ... racial inequality – shrank dramatically compared with other time periods. So while 1918 was wildly deadly across the world, the ...