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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

It's estimated that Influenza — the common flu — was the cause of death in 30 to 50 million people in 1918 and 1919. It was the second deadliest pandemic in history, just behind the Black Plague.

Those learning for the first time of the devastating consequences of the worldwide 1918 influenza pandemic typically respond with one key question: Could it happen again? Modern virologists respon ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...