If death and devastation defined the 1918 pandemic, luck defined the 1957 pandemic. It was luck that Hilleman saw an article about rising rates of influenza in Asia in the popular press.

Assuming that the U.S. uses the medical and public health advances at its disposal, Americans are now more prepared for an influenza pandemic than our ancestors were in 1918 and in 1957.

It has been proposed that the virus that caused the 1918 pandemic was a virus of avian origin (ie, a bird flu virus). So, one scenario is that birds transmitted the virus directly to humans.

Ultimately, at some point, seven segments from an avian H7N1 virus combined with an H1 hemagglutinin gene that was already adapted to humans, producing the 1918 pandemic virus. Reconstructions of ...

But if there is a bird flu pandemic soon, it will be among the most foreseeable catastrophes in history. ... It’s likely that the 1918 influenza pandemic, for example, ...

There is little population immunity to these novel strains, and this was what led to the devastating worldwide influenza pandemic in 1918 and less severe pandemics in 1957, 1968, 1977 and 2009.

Before COVID-19, experts widely believed an influenza virus would be responsible for the next human pandemic. There have been four influenza pandemics since1900, including the 1918 Spanish Flu ...

An 'exchange of genetic material' between human and avian flu viruses ... The 1918 “Spanish flu,” which ... So too was the 2009 H1N1 swine flu, which led to a pandemic estimated to have ...

If death and devastation defined the 1918 pandemic, luck defined the 1957 pandemic. It was luck that Hilleman saw an article about rising rates of influenza in Asia in the popular press.

If death and devastation defined the 1918 pandemic, luck defined the 1957 pandemic. It was luck that Hilleman saw an article about rising rates of influenza in Asia in the popular press.