White announced that he had developed a vaccine that would prevent Spanish ... that the flu had already reached its peak and was waning anyway. As November rolled around, Philadelphia, like ...

On Sept. 28, 1918, Philadelphia city officials refused to cancel their parade amid the Spanish flu pandemic, with devastating health consequences. That decision has been held up by the Centers for ...

The outbreak of this influenza virus, also known as Spanish flu, spread with astonishing speed around the world, overwhelming India, and reaching Australia and the remote Pacific islands.