Bubonic Plague: Far from the Deadliest Epidemic - http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/bubonic_plague/
Compares the severity of historical bubonic plague pandemics to the Spanish Influenza pandemic. |
Images from the 1918 Influenza Epidemic - http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/collections/archives/agalleries/1918flu/1918flu.html
Patients, medical personnel, field hospitals, and charts showing the dramatic spread of the 1918 pandemic. From the National Museum of Health and Medicine. |
Influenza 1918, A Venus Connection? - http://www.ebicom.net/~rsf1/vel/1918.htm
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. |
Is Another Influenza Pandemic Coming Soon? - http://www.infectiousdiseasenews.com/199705/frameset.asp?article=pandemic.asp
Article from Infectious Disease News describing the investigation of a Spanish influenza sample found in WWI soldier's lungs. [Requires free registration] |
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic - http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/
History of this pandemic, the public health measures taken to limit it, and the efforts of scientists to pinpoint its cause. |
The American Experience | Influenza 1918 - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/influenza/
Information on the film from the PBS series. Features include, maps, timelines and people and events relating to this devastating occurrence. |
The Medical and Scientific Conceptions of Influenza - http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/fluscimed.html
The response by doctors and scientists during the pandemic and in the aftermath. |
The Pennsylvania Gazette: The Flu of 1918 - http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/1198/lynch.html
An account of the outbreak based on contemporary newspaper accounts of its progress through Philadelphia. |
The Public Health Response - http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/fluresponse.html
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 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu
Article about the 1918 Influenza pandemic with a look to geographical origins and social impact. |