Schuylkill County families faced two wars in 1918 — one in Europe, the other at home. The Pottsville Republican and other newspapers ran lists of county residents who died in World War I in France and ...

Two page paper pamphlet, stapled, with red cover. Dated 28th October, 1918. In his pamphlet, "The Unburied Dead," Guy Beckley Stearns, M.D., discusses homeopathic remedies employed in the influenza ...

Long before it reached cities or ships, the 1918 flu was already spreading in army camps across the U.S. and Canada. What looked like a local outbreak was the start of something far worse ...

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On Oct. 5, 2005, scientists announced that for the first time they were able to genetically sequence the strain of avian flu that was behind the 1918 pandemic that killed up to 50 million people ...

Introduction: An ill wind -- A victim and a survivor -- "Knock me down" fever -- The killer without a name -- The invisible enemy -- One deadly summer -- Know thy enemy -- The fangs of death -- Like ...

This year’s flu season has been tough. But it pales in comparison to the horrors of 1918. One hundred years ago, the United States was swept into a global influenza epidemic that one source called ...

That’s why we must “get wisdom, get understanding” (v. 5). Wisdom teaches us what to do with knowledge. And true wisdom, this ...

The main base hospital complex covered some 20-acres to serve the many thousands of enlisted men and the 1,500 commissioned ...

Members of the American Red Cross remove Spanish influenza victims from a house at Etzel and Page avenues in 1918. Post-Dispatch file photo St. Mary's Infirmary, at 1536 Papin Street, one of more than ...

Camp Pike, 1918: The main base hospital complex covered some 20-acres to serve the many thousands of enlisted men and the 1,500 commissioned officers at the base training for World War I. The “bright ...