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The world’s foremost influenza experts know remarkably little; they have not even known that flu was a virus for very long. To inform us about its evolutionary history, its human history and what it ...
Leighterton still relied on horse-drawn carts when a few hundred young Australians arrived in 1918, weaving their way through ...
The original 18 footers which raced from the 1890s to the mid-1930s at a time often referred to as the ‘Big Boat Era’ ...
Battlefield pilgrims who are following in the footsteps of their Anzac relatives on Mat McLachlan's commemorative Anzac Day 2025 battlefield tours ...
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 ...
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Why Is It Called Spanish Flu?
In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately.
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 ...
Avian influenza infections in the US have been rising over the past year, but there’s no evidence so far that people can ...