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 ...

Despite being celebrated by his supporters and immortalized after his assassination, Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa's ...

USF and FAU researchers identify bacterium behind 1,500-year-old pandemic mystery. For the first time, scientists have obtained direct genomic evidence of the bacterium responsible for the Plague of ...

In the 1950s and ‘60s Montana was among the leaders in the war against polio and nearly 4,000 Montana children participated in a 1954 field trial of the Salk polio ...

When the 1925 Serum Run to Nome is recalled, they almost always think of sled dogs cutting across frozen Alaskan wilderness, ...

He investigated which city of Cuban immigrants might have created the celebrated sandwich, Tampa or Miami. His finding was ...

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 ...

Researchers have uncovered why older adults are more vulnerable to severe flu. The culprit is a protein called ApoD, which ...

Scientists have discovered why older people are more likely to suffer severely from the flu, and can now use their findings ...

For centuries, doctors and scientists have agreed that germs are the underlying cause of infectious diseases. Someone coughs ...

Vaccination campaigns have nearly eradicated some of the most deadly and transmissible diseases. However, against a backdrop ...