Laura Spinney is a science journalist and the author of Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global and Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the ... provocative military drills off ...

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 ...

Avian influenza infections in the US have been rising over the past year, but there’s no evidence so far that people can ...

An emergency hospital at Camp Funston, Kansas, 1918. “Of the 12 men who slept ... Hence it became known as “Spanish flu.” By June influenza reached from Algeria to New Zealand.

More than 48,000 confirmed cases of influenza have already been recorded in Australia in 2025. Doctors say now is the best time to get a flu shot amid a surge in influenza cases across Australia.

Australia recorded 46,300 lab-confirmed influenza cases, a more than 50 per cent jump from last year between January and March. At-risk groups like pregnant women, the elderly and those with co ...

The flu is a contagious viral infection of the respiratory system that affects the nose, throat and lungs. It is caused by influenza viruses. Symptoms of mild flu infections can resemble those of ...

We hadn’t had a global pandemic since the Spanish Flu of 1918 until COVID came calling in 2020. And so on . . . . But the pattern has remained the same – the stock market recovers. Obsessively ...

Australia is reporting high numbers of influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and pertussis infections well ahead of winter, with concerns that declining vaccination rates could contribute ...

In early 2024, the bird influenza that had been spreading across the globe for nearly three decades did something wholly unexpected: It showed up in dairy cows in the Texas Panhandle. A dangerous ...