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. This ...

🛍️ The best Black Friday deals you can shop right now (updating) 🛍️ By Richard Conniff/MIT Press Reader Published Jul 11, 2023 9:00 PM EDT This article originally appeared on MIT Press Reader. This ...

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 ...

The death toll and economic damage associated with flu highlight its role as one of the most harmful viruses in history.

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 ...

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 ...

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 1918 flu was one of the deadliest pandemics in history, killing at least 50 million people worldwide. It was long believed that young, healthy adults were just as likely to die from the illness as ...

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 ...