On at least two occasions, in June 2023 and June 2024, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he had read "articles" and "evidence" linking the start of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic, ...

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In a glass jar at the University of Zurich, a lung has been sitting in silence for more than a hundred years. Preserved in formalin, the organ belonged to an 18-year-old Swiss man who died during the ...

A pair of lungs preserved over a century ago from a deceased Spanish flu patient has helped unravel the genetic adaptations undergone by the virus to spread across Europe during the start of the 1918 ...

ALTOONA, Pa. — John Eicher, associate professor of history at Penn State Altoona, won the triennial Charles R. Bailey Memorial Prize from the New York State Association of European Historians for his ...

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 ...

In 1918 and 1919, the Spanish influenza pandemic killed 50 million people worldwide, including 675,000 in the United States. Between October and December 1918, 657 Daytonians died of influenza or ...

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 ...

While the impact of the 1918 Spanish flu on the developed world has been extensively researched, a lot less is known about its health effects on the Global South. Literacy rates fell for females and ...

On Oct. 5, 1918, the city health department issued this warning: “Avoid persons with colds.” Dr. Max C. Starkloff, health commissioner, knew that wasn’t nearly enough. Two days later, with Mayor Henry ...