Trump now placates Canada, Greenland, Mexico, and Panama, meaning the infamous US 19th century "westward ho" will now go in ...

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 ...

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.” It was the deadliest ... Disease and war have long worked... Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic ...

And it was only the flu, after an alteration of its antigens to H1N1 through mutation, the Great Flu of 1918 and 1919, in three waves and lingering side effects. It was spread by World War I.

Recent history makes clear that microbiological disasters can strike anytime. But a longer history should remind us of the ...

In 1978, the first trivalent vaccine included two influenza A strains and one influenza B strain ... During the Second World War, the first inactivated vaccine was produced by the U.S. army ...

Yet the colour of first World War memory still remains largely white. It was an extraordinarily diverse war because we have: one and a half million Indians, two million Africans, four hundred ...

Hundreds of South African servicemen, mostly black, who died during World War One have been honoured with a new memorial in Cape Town after going unrecognised for more than a century. The 1,772 ...

The 2009 influenza pandemic A(H1N1 ... point of origin due to its simultaneous appearance in other parts of the world. Exhibited a W-shaped mortality pattern associated with an overwhelming ...