The 2009 influenza pandemic A(H1N1)pdm09 of swine origin and the continued circulation of highly pathogenic avian H5N1 strain in humans are stark reminders of the unpredictable nature of the ...

As the world’s most infamous flu pandemic (often referred to as the Spanish flu) raged from 1918–1920, scientists had very few tools available to help them combat or understand the disease.

Brevig Mission was just one place that was part of a global tragedy, one of the worst ever to befall humanity: the influenza pandemic of 1918-19. The outbreak of this influenza virus, also known ...

There is a cemetery in a small railroad town in northern Ohio where I grew up that tells a sliver of the story of the great ‘Spanish’ influenza pandemic of 1918. One section of the cemetery is ...

We wondered if we could find old cartoons from our archives from the Spanish Influenza epidemic in 1918 and see if the themes in them were relatable to today’s coronavirus pandemic. In fact ...

She has been working at PEOPLE since 2017. Primetta Giacopini, who lived through World War II and the Great Influenza pandemic of 1918, has died after a battle with COVID. She was 105.

Kennedy Jr. falsely claiming that vaccines caused the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic known as the Spanish flu. One Facebook post (archived) with around 105,000 reactions at the time of this writing ...

BBC's "Downton Abbey" is one of the rare aspects of popular culture to show the grim costs of the 1918 flu pandemic. Courtesy Carnival Films Ltd. The setting is a troopship a few days out of New ...

while the 1918 influenza pandemic killed an estimated 50 million people—more than double." Newsweek has contacted the United States Department of Health and Human Services, via email ...

Age shift during the 1918 pandemic was extreme, in which the majority of deaths occurred among individuals under 45 years of age, sparing people above this age. During the 2009 influenza pandemic ...