The Emergence - Between 3 and 6 percent of the world's population died in 18 months when the flu first tried to take over the ...

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 ...

Over the past 60 years, the influenza virus has continued to drift and shift. In 1968, a shift once again caused a pandemic.

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.

Trench Fever - The flu arrived in France. It found a pleasant home in the crowded wartime trenches, much to the dismay of the Allies who tried to keep the flu a secret. When it made its way to Madrid, ...

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 ...

An electron microscope image of the CDC’s recreated 1918 Influenza virus ... were autopsies of U.S. servicemen who died during the pandemic — the first in Fort Jackson, SC, the second in ...

33 (JULY - DECEMBER 2015), pp. 313-326 (16 pages) BACKGROUND Recent research has documented fertility decline after the peak of pandemic-associated mortality during the 1918 influenza pandemic. Yet ...

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 ...