From the mid-1910s to the 1930s, a mysterious "sleeping sickness" struck over 1 million people around the world, causing ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread through ...

The first medical trial in Britain of a vaccine against the bird flu virus H5N1 has begun in Oxford. This is an experimental vaccine against a virus with deadly potential. To see how well it works the ...

Brazil, one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of poultry, has confirmed the country’s first bird flu outbreak on ...

The idea is biologically plausible and historically grounded — and it reframes how we think about the origin of pandemics.

It seems the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research vaccine work led to that outbreak (consult Dr. Stanton Hom), which is ...

Bird flu, also known as H5N1, has been around for decades. But a discovery in 2024 came as a surprise to public health experts.

Many historic flu pandemics, including the 1918 Spanish flu, estimated to have caused 50 million ... including other strains of influenza (such as H1N1), Covid-19 and bacteria such as E. coli.

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, ...