An electron microscope image of the CDC’s recreated 1918 Influenza virus, seen here, 18 hours after infection. Courtesy: CDC/Dr. Terrence Tumpey Despite recent advances in microbiology ...

On April 1, 1918, the RFC and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) to form the Royal Air Force (RAF). The Sopwith Camel boasted a max airspeed of 113 mph (182 km/h; 98 kn), a range of 300 mi (480 km ...

Brevig Mission was just one place that was part of a global tragedy, one of the worst ever to befall humanity: the influenza pandemic of 1918-19. The outbreak of this influenza virus, also known ...

In the spring of 1918, as the nation mobilized for war, Private Albert Gitchell reported to an army hospital in Kansas. He was diagnosed with the flu, a disease doctors knew little about.

There is a cemetery in a small railroad town in northern Ohio where I grew up that tells a sliver of the story of the great ‘Spanish’ influenza pandemic of 1918. One section of the cemetery is ...

It is dangerous to draw too many parallels between coronavirus and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, that killed at least 50 million people around the world. Covid-19 is an entirely new disease ...

He was born in Weston in 1894 and was killed on 24th August 1918 while serving with no. 40 squadron of the ... Flying Corps who fell in the Great War 1914-18. The badge of the RFC (later the Royal Air ...

In the end, confronted with an adamant Senate, he accepted confirmation to the Commerce post stripped of control over the RFC. He had once again made a moral declaration and abandoned it in the pinch.

Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches, dug-outs and barbed-wire fences moved very little between 1914-1918, despite attempts on both sides to break through.

The new constitution was agreed in August 1919 and the first elections in what became known as the Weimar Republic took place in June 1920, electing Ebert as Germany’s new President. In early ...

Wilson, Nick Mansoor, Osman Lush, Douglas and Kiedrzynski, Tom 2005. Modeling the Impact of Pandemic Influenza on Pacific Islands. Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol ...