The outbreak of this influenza virus, also known as Spanish flu, spread with astonishing speed around the world, overwhelming India, and reaching Australia and the remote Pacific islands.

In a breakthrough for influenza research, scientists have discovered immune cells that can recognize influenza (flu) viruses even as they mutate, raising hopes for a longer-lasting vaccine and a ...

The truth behind the Spanish flu has been revealed. On the KBS 11TV show 'Secrets of Celebrity Soldiers' aired on the 2th, the Spanish flu, the 'purple killer' that drove many celebrities, including ...

Spanish Flu. With an influx of American soldiers, the war in Europe was winding down by the fall of 1918 and troops began coming home. With them traveled a new and more deadly version of Spanish flu.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans flocked to a new trend: raising chickens. An estimated 12 million people now own ...

Experts say this is the worst flu season in the U.S. in more than a decade and cases are still trending up. Flu infections ...

Said Doane: “It would be quite easy for one of these German agents to turn loose Spanish influenza germs in a theater or some other place where large numbers of persons are assembled.

Periodically, the yearly flu transforms into a particularly virulent strain, like the Spanish flu that killed millions of people in 1918. How do these pandemic strains arise? Aa Aa Aa Although ...

In fact, the Philadelphia Bureau of Public Health had issued a bulletin about the so-called Spanish influenza as early as July 1918. Despite the prescience of some, Philadelphia’s health and ...

A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in microbiology and related areas, from Faculty of 1000. In this webinar, Ed Boyden and Jerzy Szablowski will talk about how synthetic biology can help ...