COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

The recent fear of an avian flu pandemic has renewed interest in the 1918-1919 outbreak, said Leanne Brown, executive director of the Carver County Historical Society. “It will be interesting to ...

In the spring of 1918, as the nation mobilized for war ... Before the year was out, America would be ravaged by a flu epidemic that killed 675,000 — more than in all the wars of this century ...

What can the 1918 Flu epidemic teach us about COVID-19, asks Professor Marc Zimmer. CC Magazine: The Spanish Flu didn’t start in Spain. Why did the Iberian country get stuck with the name? Marc Zimmer ...

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 ...

Courtesy: CDC/Dr. Terrence Tumpey Despite recent advances in microbiology, early 20th-century scientists struggled to understand the source of the deadly 1918 influenza epidemic and how best to ...

The Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 brought with it a slew of folk-medicine remedies. After all, the flu was scary—and there was ...

potentially sparking a pandemic like the notorious 1918 influenza outbreak that claimed more than 20 million lives globally. But US health officials expected the next globe-trotting virus to arise in ...

The most mild flu pandemic has been little more than a blip, while the worst—the 1918 outbreak—resulted in millions of deaths. Here’s what you need to know about influenza pandemics ...

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Birds are hosts for all influenza A subtypes and are the reservoir from which new HA subtypes are introduced into humans (Palese, 2004). Deciphering the 1918 Epidemic Because influenza viruses ...

H5N1 avian flu viruses have been spreading widely in the United States for three years. Numerous mistakes and omissions in containment efforts are now taking their toll. Virus experts say conditions ...