A mess cook's sick call visit at Camp Funston became the first recorded military case of an outbreak that killed more U.S. soldiers than the Germans did in WWI.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although researchers continue to debate the exact location where the pandemic began, there is no credible evidence that anything ...

When young, healthy soldiers began getting sick by the dozens in March, 1918, military physicians were baffled by what might be causing it. Courtesy: NARA At Fort Riley, Kansas, an Army private ...

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." ...