A university professor and two students recreated a virus identical to the one that caused the devastating 1918 Spanish Flu ...

In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately. Young, old, sick and otherwise-healthy people all became infected — at ...

and how the Spanish flu brought the world to its knees not so long ago. There is no universal consensus regarding the origins of the H1N1 influenza virus, but some have pointed to the pandemic ...

Spain was the only country hit by the virus that was not involved in World War I; therefore it was the only country to report the true extent of the pandemic. This resulted in the mistaken belief that ...

The outbreak of this influenza virus, also known as Spanish flu, spread with astonishing speed around the world, overwhelming India, and reaching Australia and the remote Pacific islands.

During the 1918-19 outbreak, it was thought that Spanish flu was caused by bacteria rather than a virus. Viruses are now better understood, but scientists have also learned a great deal from ...

it was not possible to study the origin of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic at the time of this virus's outbreak; indeed, the virus was not extensively studied until the last decade of the twentieth ...

Avian influenza A (H5N1) has mutated, so the symptoms of bird flu could change as more people get sick in 2025.

Research Ninety years after the 1918 flu pandemic claimed the last of its approximately 50 million victims, antibodies to the virus live on in people exposed to it as children -- and the pandemic ...