Experiences from the 1918 and 20th century influenza pandemics helped immensely in the preparation of a better response for A(H1N1)pdm09. The explosive pattern of the 1918 pandemic makes it a ...

NIH program to make vaccines against pathogens that can trigger pandemics uses approach pioneered in last century ...

Officials were doubly surprised when the virus was identified as a swine influenza. All three influenza pandemics of the 20th century had been bird strains. Even more baffling, the virus had an ...

As many Global North countries turn inward, foreign assistance has become an easy target. The decimation of the US Agency for ...

Moreover, pandemics involving influenza strains ... the virus was not extensively studied until the last decade of the twentieth century. Specifically, in 1997, both frozen and formalin-fixed ...