"A global influenza pandemic is No. 1, 2, 3 and 4 on our list of the most-feared public health crises," according to Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for ...

The signers acknowledged that leaders of their professions had previously condemned a street protest against lockdown ...

The 1918 influenza pandemic was a pandemic in every sense of the word – global and affecting all people, from poor factory workers to world leaders like President Wilson.

John Barry, author of the 2004 book, The Great Influenza, draws parallels between today's pandemic and the flu of 1918. In both cases, he says, "the outbreak was trivialized for a long time." ...

An influenza pandemic like the pandemic of 1918 could be even worse than Covid-19 has been, and the world is not ready to deal with it, the National Academy of Medicine said in a series of reports ...

The last few flu pandemics since 1918 have had death tolls of a million or more. Experts say it’s a matter of time until another strain hits.

Hilleman was born a year after the notorious 1918 influenza pandemic swept the world, killing 20 million to 100 million people. By 1957, when Hilleman began worrying about the egg supply, ...

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 Open menu Close menu ...

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.

The name “Spanish flu” has accompanied the 1918 pandemic ever since, largely because other countries were unwilling or uninterested in reporting on the outbreak within their own borders. We ...

Current strains of bird flu are “poorly suited for pandemic potential,” said Dr. Shira Doron, a Tufts Medicine infectious disease expert.