COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

If the upper end of that estimate is accurate, the 1918 pandemic killed more people than both World Wars put together. (Get the facts on influenza.) The first official cases of the 1918 Spanish ...

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 influenza pandemic. Yet ...

An electron microscope image of the CDC’s recreated 1918 Influenza virus, seen here, 18 hours after infection. Courtesy: CDC/Dr. Terrence Tumpey Despite recent advances in microbiology ...

Hilleman, however, needed eggs not for his breakfast, but to make the vaccines that were key to stopping a potential influenza pandemic. Hilleman was born a year after the notorious 1918 influenza ...

like the Spanish flu that killed millions of people in 1918. How do these pandemic strains arise? Aa Aa Aa Although most healthy adults who contract the flu experience relatively minor symptoms ...

As the world’s most infamous flu pandemic (often referred to as the Spanish flu) raged from 1918–1920, scientists had very few tools available to help them combat or understand the disease.

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 ...