An article from Science News Online describing the exhumation of one of the victims of the pandemic and the retrieval of a virus sample from his tissue.
An American suggestion that some viruses come from outer space led British astronomers to hypothesize that Venus was a likely origin for solar-wind borne liquefying bacterial invasions.
Compares the severity of historical bubonic plague pandemics to the Spanish Influenza pandemic.
History of this pandemic, the public health measures taken to limit it, and the efforts of scientists to pinpoint its cause.
An account of the outbreak based on contemporary newspaper accounts of its progress through Philadelphia.
Article from Infectious Disease News describing the investigation of a Spanish influenza sample found in WWI soldier's lungs. [Requires free registration]
Article about the 1918 Influenza pandemic with a look to geographical origins and social impact.
Discusses the response of the public and the public health infrastructure in the face of the 1918 Influenza epidemic as it happened.
Patients, medical personnel, field hospitals, and charts showing the dramatic spread of the 1918 pandemic. From the National Museum of Health & Medicine
The response by doctors and scientists during the pandemic and in the aftermath.
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