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 ...
While attention was focused on Covid, a new variant of avian influenza emerged: one that can infect many different species ...
Doctors are on high alert over a mystery flu-like illness - with similarities to Covid-19 - that has people critically ill in Argentina. International public health surveillance system ...
Millions still died from it last year. It’s not as bad as the height of the pandemic but that’s still notable.
Both COVID and the flu require new and different vaccine formulas aimed at defeating newly circulating variants of the viruses. The inevitable result of this has been, for most of us, increasing ...
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.” ...
(Jim Vondruska/Reuters) Federal agencies with competing interests are slowing the country’s ability to track and control an outbreak of highly virulent bird flu that for the first time is ...
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.