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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

There is little population immunity to these novel strains, and this was what led to the devastating worldwide influenza pandemic in 1918 and less severe pandemics in 1957, 1968, 1977 and 2009.

The flu has long been a threat to public health. The first recorded influenza pandemic occurred in 1518, but references to illnesses possibly caused by influenza stretch back as as early as 412 B ...

Ordinary seasonal influenza viruses normally bind only to cells in the upper respiratory tract—the nose and throat—which is why they transmit easily. The 1918 pandemic virus infected cells in ...

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 ...

His company BlueDot was among the first to flag the virus in China that led to the COVID pandemic. Khan said bird flu is just as concerning. Khan said he wants people to know "this is a very ...

but there is a growing risk that bird flu could mutate to become more contagious in humans, raising the risk of a bird flu pandemic.

His company, BlueDot, was among the first to flag the virus in China that became the COVID pandemic. Khan told us bird flu is just as concerning. He showed us how fast the virus has spread among ...