The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to the far-reaching social implications of emerging infectious diseases, bringing ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn the attention to the far-reaching social implications of emerging infectious diseases, ...

Mr Paddy Chew became the first Singaporean to publicly announce that he had Aids. The moment was so ground-breaking that The ...

The "Spanish Flu" influenza changed the world and showed the frightening aftermath of a global disease. Those who survived were loathe to talk about it.

Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH's Medical Collection to decode ...

Headlines from 1918 show the steps taken to stop the spread of the Spanish flu in New Orleans. “The disease didn’t really care,” Barry said. “There was not a hell of a lot you could do.” ...

Red Cross volunteers fight the Spanish Flu pandemic in the United States in 1918. (APIC / Getty Images) The new disease, public officials said as people began to fall ill with unfamiliar symptoms ...

This would change with the Spanish Flu, a respiratory disease misidentified as coming from Spain due to the Spanish government’s early identification of the problem.

We still have descendent strains of the Spanish flu floating around today. It’s endemic, not a pandemic. As a society, we accept a certain amount of death from known diseases.

The Spanish Flu Pandemic, also known as La Grippe Espagnole, or La Pesadilla, was an unusually severe and deadly strain of avian influenza, a viral infectious disease, that killed some 50 million ...

One-third of the world was infected with the Spanish flu, and eventually, so many people either died from it or had immunity that the disease had nowhere to go.

It is unclear what caused it and why it went away. The disease was first described in 1917 by a neurologist in Vienna. At ...