Spanish Flu Epidemic and Its Influence on History

A look at the 1918 influenza pandemic from its outbreak to its effects on the global population and its legacy. On the second Monday of March, 1918, the world changed forever. What seemed like a harmless cold morphed into a global pandemic that would wipe out as many as a hundred-million people ten times as many as the Great War. German troops faltered, lending the allies the winning advantage, ...