RFK Jr. shifted $500 million from a pandemic preparedness fund to a single nascent flu vaccine development program.

The Spanish Influenza Epidemic of 1918 was one of the most devastating events in human history, killing an estimated 20 to 50 million people worldwide. Like everywhere else, Syracuse felt the pain ...

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 ...

The 1918 pandemic virus infected cells in the upper respiratory tract, transmitting easily, but also deep in the lungs, damaging tissue and often leading to viral as well as bacterial pneumonias.

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.

The explosive pattern of the 1918 pandemic makes it a benchmark for pandemic planning and preparedness today. Its similarities with the 2009 pandemic makes it even more intriguing, and it is a ...

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 ...

Kennedy Jr. said he had read "articles" and "evidence" linking the start of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic, known as the Spanish flu, to vaccine research. Kennedy described these articles as "strong ...

Even though a century separates the emergence of the two viruses, the HAs of the 1918 pandemic virus and A(H1N1)pdm09 virus have marked similarities. These two pandemics teach us a valuable lesson ...