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10 kwi 2018 · 30 Photos. In Focus. Between 1918 and 1919, an outbreak of influenza spread rapidly across the world, and killed more than 50 million—and possibly as many as 100 million—people within 15 months....
The website is an open access digital collection of archival, primary, and interpretive materials related to the history of the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic in the United States.
The next day—October 9, 1918—the Daily gave its first accounting of a wave of illness crashing across campus. More than 100 students, it said, were under doctors’ care. Spanish influenza—the deadliest pandemic of the 20th century—had come to Stanford.
13 mar 2018 · The 1918 Influenza Pandemic, also known as the Spanish Flu, was one of the deadliest events in human history. While fighting between the Allied Powers and the Central Powers raged on in Europe, the disease knew no borders.
During the summer of 1918, an influenza outbreak, now known to be a strain of H1N1, spread across Europe and Asia. In Spain alone 80% of the population was affected. At first, the “Spanish Influenza” seemed like a distant concern for Philadelphians.
In 2010, the University of Michigan was awarded a $315,000 Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant to support The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918–1919: A Digital Encyclopedia. In 2012, NEH also made a Digging into Data grant of $124,000 to support “An Epidemiology of Information: Data Mining the 1918 Influenza Epidemic.”
23 cze 2020 · Photograph courtesy of the Brigham and Women's Hospital Archives. On September 23, 1918, when Harvard College opened its doors for the new school year, the Spanish flu had infected hundreds of Cambridge residents. More than 3,000 local children—nearly a quarter of total school enrollment—were reported ill, and Cambridge officials, meeting ...
