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Scientists who synthesized two genes from the virus that caused the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic said on Thursday they have a found new clues about what made it so deadly. Between 20 million and 50 ...

Actually, the initial wave of deaths from the pandemic in the first half of 1918 was relatively low. It was in the second wave, from October through December of that year, that the highest death rates ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The virus that caused the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic which killed more people than World War One was so deadly because it triggered an uncontrolled immune system response in its ...

CNN — 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." ...

Please visit the ‘Drexel’s Response to Coronavirus’ website for the latest public health advisories. In the fall of 1918, a pregnant woman named Naomi Ford visited the Philadelphia department store ...

"Influenza has apparently become domesticated with us" : influenza, medicine and the public, 1890-1918 -- "The whole world seems up-side-down" : patients, families and communities confront the ...

When the influenza virus shifts, it can quickly reach pandemic levels because people have not been exposed to the reassorted virus before. That’s probably what happened in 1918, and it is what’s ...

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.