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The 1918 influenza pandemic killed 20 50 million people worldwide, including many healthy young adults. A team from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) extracted viral RNA from autopsy ...

Bird flu appeared in a Texas dairy farm in March 2024. Havoc has followed on farms and in grocery stores and concerns mount for human health.

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

It's flu season right now, and the U.S. is in the midst of a wave that's straining hospitals. But not all influenza is the ...

In the past weeks nationwide sniffling, coughing and dull fevers have heralded the spread of influenza. Unlike the famed epidemic of 1918, the disease spread from west to east.* Last week the U.

The worst flu season in American history led to the building of Manteca’s first hospital 106 years ago. The severe influenza epidemic started in 1918.

One family in Bristol, Tennessee, lost four daughters — all between the ages of 18 months and 14 years — during the Spanish ...

Hilleman was born a year after the notorious 1918 influenza pandemic swept ... Within a month of learning about Hong Kong’s influenza epidemic, Hilleman had requested, obtained and tested ...