The Emergence - Between 3 and 6 percent of the world's population died in 18 months when the flu first tried to take over the ...

By 1957, scientists had a significantly more sophisticated understanding of influenza, worrying them that a pandemic similar ...

researchers managed to extract viral genomes from tissue samples of people who caught the 1918 pandemic flu in different years to show how the virus mutated over time to adapt to the human immune ...

During that time America’s small ... in London are analyzing brain and lung tissue from victims of the 1918 pandemic as part of global efforts to understand the virus. Here, wax-mounted tissue ...

The explosive pattern of the 1918 pandemic makes it a benchmark for pandemic planning and preparedness today. Its similarities with the 2009 pandemic makes it even more intriguing, and it is a ...

There is a cemetery in a small railroad town in northern Ohio where I grew up that tells a sliver of the story of the great ‘Spanish’ influenza pandemic of 1918. One section of the cemetery is ...

Those learning for the first time of the devastating consequences of the worldwide 1918 influenza pandemic typically respond with one key question: Could it happen again? Modern virologists respon ...

Leading virologist Professor John Oxford presents a three-part series on the origin, spread and reaction to the pandemic that devastated much of the planet just over 100 years ago.

Hilleman knew that it was just a matter of time before the influenza virus shifted and caused a pandemic similar to the one in 1918. Exactly when that shift would occur was anyone’s guess.

A university professor and two students recreated a virus identical to the one that caused the devastating 1918 ... Flu pandemic. During that outbreak, an estimated 500 million people worldwide — ...

Demographic Research, Vol. 33 (JULY - DECEMBER 2015), pp. 313-326 (16 pages) BACKGROUND Recent research has documented fertility decline after the peak of pandemic-associated mortality during the 1918 ...