Tucsonans — then numbering about 20,000 people living in a dusty desert town — started to die in the spring of 1918 from a devastating flu.

New versions of the H5N1 virus are increasingly adept at spreading. Suggestions to either let it rip in poultry or vaccinate the birds could backfire.

In the wake of the 1918/1919 “Spanish flu” influenza pandemic, the probability of low birth weight and stillbirth increased among women in Switzerland, according to a new study published this ...

In the wake of the 1918/1919 "Spanish flu" influenza pandemic, the probability of low birth weight and stillbirth increased among women in Switzerland, according to a new study published this week ...

As Colorado marks another COVID-19 anniversary, the takeaway for historians and epidemiologists is as simple as it is jarring: Americans haven't learned the lessons from its Spanish flu history.

So far, there’s no evidence that mink from the Spanish farm spread bird flu to humans: None of the workers tested positive for the virus, and since then, no other mink farms have reported outbreaks.

Watch Duncan’s full infection prevention seminar hosted by the Alabama Regional Center for Infection Prevention and Control here. For highly infectious agents, such as flu and COVID-19, ...

Some scientists believe the next major influenza pandemic could kill 150 million people, with global warming and the spread of diabetes, obesity and antibiotic-resistant bacteria complicating factors.

He added that the secondary bacterial infection (pneumonia) that follows “takes advantage of the damage that had been done by the virus.”. Spanish Flu wasn’t caused by an experimental bacterial ...

The Socialist Party (PSOE)-Podemos government plans to ignore mass COVID-19 infections and deaths by treating it as an “endemic disease” similar to influenza.

COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did — approximately 675,000. The U.S. population a century ago was just one-third of what it is today, meaning ...