On a table at the back of Phoebe Lostroh’s classroom at Colorado College whirs a constant reminder that pandemics are not ...

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.

There have been considerable advances in medical technology and scientific knowledge in dealing with influenza since the early 1900s. Prevention strategies involving annual influenza vaccination ...

1918. Courtesy; Library of Congress Fort Riley ... Some, looking for a point of origin of the so-called Spanish influenza that would eventually take the lives of 600,000 Americans, point to ...

Spain was half empty. There are documents from the time that give us testimony, but why do we hardly know anything about this "Spanish flu"? Surely his study and knowledge would have helped us ...

from the 1918 Spanish flu to the latest 2024 H5N1 strains. The University of Melbourne’s Dr Oanh Nguyen, Senior Research Fellow at the Doherty Institute and co-author of the study, explained the ...

Experiences from the 1918 and 20th century influenza pandemics helped immensely in the preparation of a better response for A(H1N1)pdm09. The explosive pattern of the 1918 pandemic makes it a ...