CNN — Pandemic: It's a scary word. But the world has seen pandemics before, and worse ones, too. Consider the influenza pandemic of 1918, often referred to erroneously as the "Spanish flu." ...

A pair of lungs preserved over a century ago from a deceased Spanish flu patient has helped unravel the genetic adaptations undergone by the virus to spread across Europe during the start of the 1918 ...

A groundbreaking study by researchers from the Universities of Basel and Zurich has unlocked one of the most significant viral mysteries of the 20th century. By decoding the genome of the 1918 ...

Approximately 43,000 service members were killed by the influenza virus that was first identified at an Army base in Haskell ...

In the winter of 1918, an illness was spreading in Haskell County, Kansas. The remote farming community in the state's southwestern corner sat roughly 300 miles from anywhere most Americans would ...