As the world’s most infamous flu pandemic (often referred to as the Spanish flu) raged from 1918–1920, scientists had very few tools available to help them combat or understand the disease.

The outbreak of this influenza virus, also known as Spanish flu, spread with astonishing speed around the world, overwhelming India, and reaching Australia and the remote Pacific islands.

The Nature of Viruses Viruses are microscopic entities that require a host's cellular machinery to replicate. Unlike bacteria ...

There is a cemetery in a small railroad town in northern Ohio where I grew up that tells a sliver of the story of the great ‘Spanish’ influenza ... the structure and function of the virus ...

The crystal structure of the hemagglutinin of both the viruses is similar, especially within the Sa antigenic site. Compared with seasonal influenza outbreaks, the overall impact of the 2009 H1N1 ...

Characterization of the reconstructed 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic virus. Science 310 ... et al. Community structure and metabolism through reconstruction of microbial genomes from the environment.

Nearly 119,000 birds have been culled at a farm in California after a bird flu called H5N9 was detected among the poultry ...

A university professor and two students recreated a virus identical to the one that caused the devastating 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. If they can do it, so can terrorists. “The Terrorism Warning ...

Research Ninety years after the 1918 flu pandemic claimed the last of its approximately 50 million victims, antibodies to the virus live on in people exposed to it as children -- and the pandemic ...

Unlike seasonal flu viruses, the Spanish flu virus has been proven to continue actively proliferating in the lungs. This, however, still leaves many mysteries unsolved. Research continues into the ...

But few diseases match the year-in, year-out power of this deadly viral ... (The Asian Flu) and in the 1968 (The Hong Kong Flu). Health officials fear a repeat of the Great Spanish Influenza ...