A pair of lungs preserved over a century ago from a deceased Spanish flu patient has helped unravel the genetic adaptations ...

Scientists decode how the 1918 flu rapidly adapted to humans—much earlier than thought.

The 2025 flu season is the worst in over a decade, with record-high infections, hospitalizations, and a rare second peak.

The preserved lung of an 18-year-old Swiss man has been used to create the full genome of the 1918 "Spanish flu," the first ...

An avian influenza pandemic remains within the realm of possibility. To reduce the risk, we need to engage in a One Health ...

at least three of the last four human flu pandemics have involved reassortment. “Reassortment has played a major, major role in the emergence of pandemic influenza,” says Daniel Perez, a professor of ...

Scientists in Switzerland have cracked open a century-old viral mystery by decoding the genome of the 1918 influenza virus.

The damage to those commercial industries has been severe. By the CDC’s accounting, bird flu has struck down nearly 131 ...

In the unlikely, but possible, event of a bird flu pandemic in humans, there are other lessons to be learned from COVID-19. Strategies to keep schools open and businesses working will be essential.

In the influenza pandemics of 1957 and 1968, clinical illness was mostly confined to the respiratory system, while the infections caused by the 1918 and the human H5N1 strains caused multisystem ...

An influenza pandemic of the type that ravaged the globe in 1918 and 1919 would kill about 62 million people today, with 96 percent of the deaths occurring in developing countries.