Web Directory

» A Doughboy's Lungs Yield 1918 Flu Virus
   An article from Science News Online describing the exhumation of one of the victims of the pandemic and the retrieval of a virus sample from his tissue.
   http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc97/3_22_97/fob1.htm

» Bird flu, Influenza and 1918: The Case for Mutant Avian Tuberculosis
   Medical hypothesis by Lawrence Broxmeyer MD linking the swine flu, bird flu and the pandemic of 1918 to genetic material that the influenza virus "borrowed" from tuberculosis.
   http://drbroxmeyer.netfirms.com/001pdfBIRDFLUEDITORIALPUBLISHED.pdf

» Bubonic Plague: Far from the Deadliest Epidemic
   Compares the severity of historical bubonic plague pandemics to the Spanish Influenza pandemic.
   http://einsteinsfridge.info/bubonic_plague/

» Images from the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
   Patients, medical personnel, field hospitals, and charts showing the dramatic spread of the 1918 pandemic. From the National Museum of Health and Medicine.
   http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/collections/archives/agalleries/1918flu/1918flu.html

» Influenza 1918, A Venus Connection?
   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.
   http://www.datasync.com/~rsf1/vel/1918.htm

» Is Another Influenza Pandemic Coming Soon?
   Article from Infectious Disease News describing the investigation of a Spanish influenza sample found in WWI soldier's lungs. [Requires free registration]
   http://www.infectiousdiseasenews.com/199705/frameset.asp?article=pandemic.asp

» The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
   History of this pandemic, the public health measures taken to limit it, and the efforts of scientists to pinpoint its cause.
   http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/

» The American Experience: Influenza 1918
   Information on the film from the PBS series. Features include, maps, timelines and people and events relating to this devastating occurrence.
   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/influenza/

» The Pennsylvania Gazette: The Flu of 1918
   An account of the outbreak based on contemporary newspaper accounts of its progress through Philadelphia.
   http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/1198/lynch.html

» Wikipedia: Spanish Flu
   Article about the 1918 Influenza pandemic with a look to geographical origins and social impact.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu