Why is it called Spanish flu?

In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately.
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The 1918 flu that killed 100 million, the forgotten pandemic that shaped the modern world

Before the Roaring Twenties, before the jazz clubs and the consumer boom, came one of the deadliest catastrophes in human ...

Epidemic vs. Pandemic vs. Endemic: What’s the Difference?

When it comes to infectious diseases in the news, you often hear terms like outbreak, epidemic, pandemic and endemic. The differences in these terms comes down to the scope of ...
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The pandemic century one hundred years of panic, hysteria, and hubris Mark Honigsbaum

Sharks and other predators -- The blue death -- Plague in the City of Angels -- The great parrot fever pandemic -- The "Philly killer" -- Legionnaires' redux -- AIDS in America, AIDS in Africa -- SARS ...
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Swiss genome of the 1918 influenza virus reconstructed

Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH's Medical Collection to decode the genome of the virus responsible for the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic ...