New studies suggest that the flu pandemic of 1918, which killed 20 million people, started as a bird flu virus. The finding troubles health officials, who worry a similar scenario is developing in ...

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We have proposed that the virus responsible for the 1918 human influenza pandemic was avian-like, which to us is a reasonable interpretation of all the available data from phylogenetic, sequence ...

At the height of the flu pandemic in 1918, William H. Sardo Jr. remembers the pine caskets stacked in the living room of his family's house, a funeral home in Washington, D.C. The city had slowed ...

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.

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.

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.