A past pandemic was narrowly avoided—can the U.S. dodge another as a new strain spreads? Alexandra M. Lord, Curator of Medicine and Science In recent months, Americans looking for eggs have faced ...

Scientists have “reconstructed” the genome of the 1918–1920 influenza virus, using a sample from a patient in Switzerland. Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich studied a sample from ...

Swine-origin influenza viruses show mutations that resist antiviral drugs, posing a pandemic risk and highlighting the urgent need for ongoing surveillance and updated treatment strategies. Study: ...

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Influenza: Virus and History -- ch. 2 The Forgotten Pandemic Remembered -- ch. 3 Breakthroughs -- ch. 4 Setbacks -- ch. 5 The Forecast Calls for Pandemics -- ch.

Enemas, bloodletting, and whiskey : treating the flu -- The jolly rant : a history of the virus -- "Something fierce" : the Spanish flu of 1918 -- "Am I gonna die?" : round two, and three, and four ..

In the early 20th century, science was sufficiently sophisticated to anticipate that influenza, which had twice reached pandemic proportions in the late 19th century, would recur, but was largely ...

Hopefully, the headlines will not turn around again. When the word “pandemic” was first used to describe the possibility of a massive influenza pestilence of a worldwide nature, the history buff in me ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Epidemiologists have not yet identified exactly how a person in Missouri contracted bird flu last week, said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday. The ...