The Covid “pandemic’ was nothing compared to the greatest killer of humanity, The Black Death of the 14th century, and the next in line, the Spanish Influenza, also called the Spanish Flu of 1918-1920 ...

Influenza type C differs from types A and B in some important ways. Type C infection usually causes ... in large numbers of deaths: 1918-19 "Spanish flu" A -- Caused the highest known influenza ...

31 Furthermore, an influenza pandemic, such as those of the ‘Spanish’ influenza in 1918 ... potential therapeutic targets for chronic HBV infection from the virus life cycle.

Many of the bird deaths have been attributed to the H5N1 bird flu. In January, a person in Louisiana became the first in the U.S. to die from an H5N1 infection, according to the Centers for ...

It outlines historical and contemporary evidence of inequalities in pandemics—drawing on international research into the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918 ... ethnic and geographical inequalities in ...

More information: John P.R. Eicher, A Provincial Pandemic: European Ignorance of the 1918 "Spanish" Influenza as a Shared Event, Contemporary European History (2025). DOI: 10.1017 ...

Headlines as of late have sounded alarms about the spread of the avian flu, known more colloquially as the bird flu. Over the last year, a highly pathogenic avian influenza, A(H5N1), has ...

In 1997, 18 cases of avian influenza A H5N1 infection occurred in humans in Hong Kong. It soon became evident that the avian influenza virus H5N1 could cross the species barrier and infect humans.

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-borne pathogen that has been identified in more than 110 countries around the world.

Twelve people on a family vacation in Costa Rica in December 2024 were sickened with histoplasmosis when they came in contact ...