Researchers successfully decoded the genome of the 1918 influenza virus by utilizing an over 100-year-old formalin-fixed ...

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

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

Spain's normally cooler northern regions faced unusually high temperatures over two months, with dozens of extreme heat alerts and rising concerns about the impact of ongoing heatwaves.

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

Spanish Flu or 1918 Flu is also called “Forgotten Flu or Forgotten Pandemic” due to the little attention it receives today, despite being the deadliest pandemic of the 20th century. Let us remind you ...

The deadly version of the Spanish flu first hit the United States in August 1918, on ships coming from the war in Europe. It peaked in this country in October, with 100,000 deaths in that month alone.

The Story of the Spanish Flu Ended Before the Virus Did. The Same Is Happening With the Covid Pandemic. This isn’t the first time society has struggled to make sense of the long tail of a pandemic.

The “Spanish” flu was first found in U.S. soldiers and popped up in Europe and Asia in March of 1918. It was a form of an avian flu originating in birds. While the first wave was mild, the ...

The Spanish flu killed an order of magnitude more Americans than died in combat in the war (53,402). Ironically, unlike most flu epidemics, but like the war that preceded and spread it, the influenza ...