1918 Pandemic

The American Experience | Influenza 1918 - - Information on the film from the PBS series. Features include, maps, timelines and people and events relating to this devastating occurrence.

Bubonic Plague: Far from the Deadliest Epidemic - - Compares the severity of historical bubonic plague pandemics to the Spanish Influenza pandemic.

Images from the 1918 Influenza Epidemic - - Patients, medical personnel, field hospitals, and charts showing the dramatic spread of the 1918 pandemic. From the National Museum of Health & Medicin.

Influenza 1918, A Venus Connection? - - 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.

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic - - History of this pandemic, the public health measures taken to limit it, and the efforts of scientists to pinpoint its cause.

The Medical and Scientific Conceptions of Influenza - - The response by doctors and scientists during the pandemic and in the aftermath.

The Pennsylvania Gazette: The Flu of 1918 - - An account of the outbreak based on contemporary newspaper accounts of its progress through Philadelphia.

The Public Health Response - - Discusses the response of the public and the public health infrastructure in the face of the 1918 Influenza epidemic as it happened.

Wikipedia: Spanish Flu - - Article about the 1918 Influenza pandemic with a look to geographical origins and social impact.

Is Another Influenza Pandemic Coming Soon? - - Article from Infectious Disease News describing the investigation of a Spanish influenza sample found in WWI soldier's lungs. [Requires free registration] (June 2, 1997)

A Doughboy's Lungs Yield 1918 Flu Virus - - 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. (March 22, 1997)