In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately. Young, old, sick and otherwise-healthy people all became infected — at ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to continue creating novel pandemic viruses in apparent defiance of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump calling for a crackdown on the ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to continue creating novel pandemic viruses in apparent defiance of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump calling for a crackdown on the ...

A case series has found at least 41 cases of influenza-associated acute necrotizing encephalopathy in kids during the past two respiratory virus seasons. Most cases (76%) occurred in kids with no ...

Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH's Medical Collection to decode the genome of the virus responsible for the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic ...

Spanish Hawaiian Heritage Association will host an international conference at UC Davis in September – a celebration of their heritage that traces its roots from Spain to the sugar cane fields of ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s newly appointed Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) upheld recommendations for the fall flu vaccination to be administered to anyone 6 ...

When Corey Tullier was a child growing up in Baton Rouge in the '70s and '80s, he didn’t think he knew any gay people. But in his 20s, when he came out, the only lesbian he knew brought him to ...