In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately. Young, old, sick and otherwise-healthy people all became infected — at ...

In 1918, the world experienced its last major pandemic: the outbreak of the “Spanish flu ... Erroneous theories of the virus... The 1918 influenza pandemic ravaged the globe in a trio ...

Could the threat of another worldwide pandemic be on the way? On Jan. 6, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the first American, a man in Louisiana, had died from severe avian ...

The Covid-19 outbreak in 2020 was on a scale not seen since the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 and laid bare our lack of ...

The World Health Organization said in January 2025 that China's reported levels of acute respiratory infections, including ...

A team of virologists, infectious disease specialists and pathobiologists affiliated with several institutions in China and ...

It soon became evident that the avian influenza virus H5N1 could cross the species barrier and infect humans. Since then, extensive outbreaks of avian H5N1 infections with sporadic human spread ...

To learn more about the recent bird flu outbreaks, we spoke with Asha Shah, MD, director of infectious diseases and epidemiologist at Stamford Hospital. In this interview with Asha Shah, MD ...

A subtype of bird flu caused by avian influenza A (H5) virus has been spreading worldwide in wild birds with a few outbreaks in poultry, dairy cows and other mammals across the United States ...

Avian influenza A (H5N1) has mutated, so the symptoms of bird flu could change as more people get sick in 2025.