Five of them have happened in the last century alone.

THE SS Talune carried no troops when it docked in Western Samoa on November 7, 1918 – four days before the end of the Great War. But the passenger

The toll of history’s worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World War II combined. And it may have begun in the United States

The statement in the new book West that Waikumete Cemetery is "home to a mass grave filled with most of the 1128 Aucklanders who died in the influenza epidemic of 1918” still had me going this past week. Such a statement is contradicted not only by Geoffrey W. Rice in his extremely good reference on the 1918 influenza pandemic in New Zealand, Black November, 1988, reprinted 2005 (with a specific chapter on the effect in Auckland) – but even in the conservation plan for Waikumete Cemetery…

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The first recorded cases of Spanish Flu in the United States are in the spring of 1918, though it likely arrived earlier in the year.

The flu pandemic took place a century before the medical privacy laws that protect people dying from coronavirus

The Saskatchewan government began receiving reports of whole homesteads populated only by the frozen corpses of a family wiped out by flu

A series of stunning new colourised photos show the devastating effects of the Spanish Flu epidemic in 1918 that killed 50 million people and hit just after the First World War.

The Spanish flu got worse because the government — and the media — lied about it to the American people.

U.S. cities that closed schools and banned public gatherings fared better against the flu, a historian of the 1918 pandemic says.

Take a glimpse at archival photos of scenes and people living during one of the deadliest pandemics in human history.

Face masks, fresh air and porridge - how people tried to curb a deadly flu pandemic in 1918.

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The influenza of 1918 killed up to 100 million people. What lessons does it offer for our current health crisis?

See the unique ways in which the few tuberculosis sanitariums that remain today are being preserved.

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Two hundred and fifty years ago a doctor bequeathed £4,500 "to hire and fit up, purchase or erect a small hospital in Cambridge for poor people".

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Mundesley sanatorium was built in pre-fabricated sections made of timber, by Boulton and Paul ltd. It was the first large centre in England that had been built specifically for open-air treatment of the disease. However, due to its status as a private hospital, Mundesley could only offer treatment to wealthy patients. Mundesley had a post and telegraph office, and is was terminus of the Great Eastern, and Midland and Great Northern Railways, so that it was easily accessible from London, the…