ATLANTA, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published in the Federal Register an interim rule declaring the strain of influenza responsible for the 1918 pandemic as a select ...

An Australian research team believes it has found a clue that may help solve one of medicine's biggest mysteries -- why the "Spanish flu" virus of 1918 was so deadly. Scientists at Australian National ...

An Oct. 19 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) includes a video with the title “The good ol’ Kansas Flu.” “In 1918, 50 to 100 million people died of the Spanish Flu,” a narrator says. “A few ...

ATLANTA -- Scientists have made from scratch the Spanish flu virus that killed as many as 50 million people in 1918, the first time an infectious agent behind a historic pandemic has ever been ...

From the closing of borders to mandatory quarantines, governments around the world are taking drastic steps to try to contain the coronavirus pandemic. Past outbreaks provide a blueprint for ...

CNN — At this point in the coronavirus pandemic, with more than 32 million infected and more than 980,000 dead worldwide, describing this time as "unprecedented" may sound like nails on a chalkboard.

Pandemic: It's a scary word. But the world has seen pandemics before, and worse ones, too. Consider the influenza pandemic of 1918, often referred to erroneously as the "Spanish flu." Misconceptions ...

Influenza infection is self-limiting in humans, but the virus is notorious for causing substantial mortality and morbidity worldwide. Clinical features of influenza virus infection in humans encompass ...

Scientists complete the genetic sequence of the deadly 1918 flu virus. With the sequence, the researchers were able to recreate the virus, and they discovered that -- unlike the viruses that caused ...

The skeletons of people who were alive during the 1918 flu pandemic have revealed new clues about people who were more likely to die from the virus. Known as the deadliest in history, the 1918 flu ...

Frail people and those with preexisting conditions were most likely to die from the 1918 flu — not young, healthy adults as once believed, a study of the victims' skeletons suggests. When you purchase ...