Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH's Medical Collection to decode ...

Researchers from the Universities of Basel and Zurich (UZH) have sequenced the genome of the Spanish flu virus, thanks to a ...

Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH's Medical Collection to decode the genome of the virus ...

In 1918, an influenza virus known as the Spanish flu killed over 50 million people all over the world, making it the deadliest pandemic in modern history. Skip to main content.

HEALTH Skeletons from 1918 flu pandemic reveal clues about those most likely to die, study finds New research seems to contradict a long-standing belief that young, healthy people were most at risk ...

The 1918 pandemic pushed researchers to look more closely and think much harder about this new science. Different research groups began to apply their Chamberland filters to samples from flu victims.

The claim: The 1918 flu pandemic was caused by vaccines. 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 ...

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 ...

The flu typically kills the very young, the old and the sick. That made the virus in 1918 unusual, or so the story goes: It killed healthy young people as readily as those who were frail or had ...

But the mortality curve of the 1918 flu was a W, with a middle peak of people between 20 and 40—young and healthy, as the Devens military recruits would have been.

But new research published Oct. 9 in the journal PNAS suggests it may not be true at all.. In examining the skeletal remains of nearly 400 individuals, researchers from CU Boulder and McMaster ...

University of Washington scientists plan to infect monkeys with a killer flu virus grown from tissue exhumed from victims of the 1918 epidemic. They hope the insight they gain will unravel the ...