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 ...

This is the first time we’ve had access to an influenza genome from the 1918–1920 pandemic in Switzerland. It opens up new insights into the dynamics of how the virus adapt ...

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

H1N1, a contagious respiratory virus, presents flu-like symptoms including fever, cough, and body aches. Treatment involves ...

Preexisting immunity to the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus provided near-complete protection against severe H5N1 disease and ...

The H5N1 bird flu virus has historically extracted a heavy toll when it infects humans, with nearly half of confirmed cases ...

What was odd about H1N1 Russian flu pandemic In an epidemiological twist, a new pandemic influenza virus did emerge, but it was not the anticipated H1N1 swine virus.

Influenza viruses like bird flu can mix and match their genomes, and this has played a role in at least three of the last ...

Pandemic H1N1 was first observed in the year 1918 in Spain, where it caused millions of deaths. Later, several outbreaks of influenza virus were reported in 1968, 1998, 2009 and so on.

The resurrection of an extinct but dangerous human-adapted H1N1 virus came about as the world was scrambling to prevent what was perceived to be the imminent emergence of a swine H1N1 influenza ...

Influenza A virus belongs to the Orthomyxoviridae family, and produces virions of around 80–120 nm in diameter that contain an RNA genome of approximately 13.5 kb in size.