Kennedy Jr. falsely claiming that vaccines caused the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic known as the Spanish flu. One Facebook post (archived) with around 105,000 reactions at the time of this writing ...

"Bacterial Pneumonia Caused Most Deaths in 1918 Influenza Pandemic ... Trial at a U.S. Military Camp Did Not Cause the 1918 Spanish Flu." Reuters, 13 Apr. 2021. www.reuters.com, https ...

On at least two occasions, in June 2023 and June 2024, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he had read "articles" and "evidence" linking the start of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic, ...

The flu sickens millions of people in the U.S. every year, and the past year has been particularly tough. Although infections are trending downward, ...

Specifically, in 1997, both frozen and formalin-fixed lung tissue from Spanish flu victims was used to extract nucleic acid and sequence the 1918 influenza genome (Tautenberger et al., 1997).

And some deaths in the first wave were overlooked ... Krusen stated they died of “old-fashioned influenza or grip,” not Spanish flu. Another health official declared, “From now on the ...

Four such pandemic influenzas have occurred in only the past century, with the 1918 ‘Spanish flu’ alone having resulted in 50 million deaths worldwide. Given the past two years’ and ongoing ...

As the federal government lays off workers at CDC and NIAID, shutters programs, cuts research grants, and considers changes ...

Cuts to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health are expected to reduce the agency's workforce by more than ...

Pope Francis, whose time as head of the Catholic Church was noted for an everyman humility and outreach efforts to people of ...