Scientists have successfully revived the genome of the Spanish Flu that struck the world in 1918. This was thought impossible since the lung it was decoded from had been preserved in a substance that ...

It's a confounding question on the lips of disease detectives: Why have the only deaths from the swine flu outbreak happened in Mexico? Investigators also want to know why the disease has killed young ...

And now, on this cold morning of November 23 came a letter that would put on yet another burden, that of an informal diplomat and host. It came from Henry Laurens, South Carolina plantation owner and ...

In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately.

Led by Dr. Verena Schünemann, the study combines archaeogenetics, historical pathology, and modern virology to understand not just the virus’s genetic structure, but how it was already changing in the ...

BEIJING, Aug 11 (Reuters) - China has banned imports of poultry and related products from Spain over an avian influenza outbreak, China's customs administration said in a notice dated August 7 ...

Jul. 20—As a child, Ashley Montoya spent her summer running around the Traditional Spanish Market while her grandmother ran a booth. Now, she's the one behind the booth. "I'm not sure how old I was ...

PARIS, July 18 (Reuters) - Spain has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a fattening turkey farm in the southwestern region of Extremadura, the World Organisation for Animal ...

Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH's Medical Collection to decode the genome of the virus responsible for the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic ...

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Hopefully, the headlines will not turn around again. When the word “pandemic” was first used to describe the possibility of a massive influenza pestilence of a worldwide nature, the history buff in me ...

Between the mid-1910s and the 1930s, an epidemic of encephalitis lethargica (EL) spread around the world, affecting more than 1 million people and leading to an estimated 500,000 deaths. The ...