Over the first half of the 20th century the world saw growing rates of heart disease mortality. From the 1920s to the 1960s ...

The first signs that H5N1 avian flu was starting to spread from person to person would trigger a race to produce massive ...

Like COVID-19, the Spanish flu came in waves. The second wave, more contagious and deadly, hit in the fall of 1918. Hospitals across the country grappled with the growing numbers of patients ...

Myth: Covid-19 is no worse than the seasonal flu Fact: While both Covid-19 and the flu are contagious respiratory diseases caused by viruses, and people with Covid-19 and the flu may share some ...

Federal agencies with competing interests are slowing the country’s ability to track and control an outbreak of highly ...

Millions still died from it last year. It’s not as bad as the height of the pandemic but that’s still notable.

But what if it were possible to protect against COVID and the flu, and other unknown viruses that haven't yet emerged, with ...

Coronavirus: Model Can Predict the Evolution ... Evidence from the Remains of 1918 Flu Pandemic Victims Contradicts Long-Held Belief That Healthy Young Adults Were Particularly Vulnerable Oct ...

For example, the 1918 influenza pandemic was caused by an avian ... At the same time, the covid-19 pandemic showed that a fast-spreading virus can still kill and harm plenty of people even when ...

Unfortunately, COVID is still more deadly on a case-by ... UCI’s Noymer recommends a book on the American experience of the 1918 flu, called “America’s Forgotten Pandemic.” ...

The unsettling reality of H5N1 bird flu circulating ... the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic is believed to have killed between 50 million and 100 million people, many times more than Covid-19.