The 1918 influenza pandemic remains the deadliest in modern history, killing tens of millions — and leaving scientists with enduring questions about how it began. A century later, a virologist and ...

VSWG: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 107. Bd., H. 4 (2020), pp. 495-507 (13 pages) The Spanish flu hit large parts of the world in three waves. It first appeared in Europe ...

Although researchers continue to debate the exact location where the pandemic began, there is no credible evidence that anything other than H1N1, a type of influenza A virus, was responsible for it.

A pair of lungs preserved over a century ago from a deceased Spanish flu patient has helped unravel the genetic adaptations undergone by the virus to spread across Europe during the start of the 1918 ...