John Eicher, associate professor of history at Penn State Altoona, has published an article on the 1918 influenza pandemic in ...

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In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately.

The Public Health Agency of Canada is part of the federal health portfolio. Our activities focus on protecting against threats to public health, preventing and reducing diseases and injury, and ...

Wastewater disease surveillance has become central to public health officials’ ability to track the H5N1 bird flu that's now ...

The Covid-19 pandemic caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2) stands as the fastest-spreading and most extensive global health crisis that humanity has faced in a century ...

Fears the world is heading towards another pandemic are growing, as new data shows the spread of the deadly bird flu virus has begun to accelerate and move between species. Bird flu (H5N1) originated ...

The drug may be best fit for use early in an influenza pandemic, researchers and experts said. Perspective from Amesh A. Adalja, MD A trial of the influenza antiviral baloxavir suggests that the ...

Bird flu poses a serious human health and pandemic threat. It is caused by the genetically changing Influenza A H5Nx virus, which is globally dispersed by numerous infected bird species.

To justify aggressive closures, officials and media outlets made much of a dramatic graph showing infection data from St. Louis and Philadelphia during the first months of the 1918 influenza pandemic.

Influenza season is almost here and vaccination is recommended for everyone over six months old. In Aotearoa New Zealand, five vaccines are available. Whether you're eligible for a free shot or having ...

Researchers from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) work to control bird flu in Indonesia ... Long feared as a possible pandemic, doctors and veterinarians fighting the virus told ...