From the closing of borders to mandatory quarantines, governments around the world are taking drastic steps to try to contain the coronavirus pandemic. Past outbreaks provide a blueprint for ...

The 1918 influenza pandemic remains the deadliest in modern history, killing tens of millions — and leaving scientists with enduring questions about how it began. A century later, a virologist and ...

COVID-19 isn't the first pandemic Orel Borgesca had to get through. The coronavirus pandemic may be forcing millions to adjust to stay-at-home orders, but for Orel Borgeson, this isn’t the first ...

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 ...

“When the flu came in 1918, it turned few heads,” begins an upcoming documentary on the pandemic’s impact in Richmond. A recruit at Camp Lee became ill with the flu in mid-September 1918, with illness ...

Please visit the ‘Drexel’s Response to Coronavirus’ website for the latest public health advisories. In the fall of 1918, a pregnant woman named Naomi Ford visited the Philadelphia department store ...

The influenza ward at Walter Reed Hospital during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 Library of Congress The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 reached just about every continent throughout the globe.

John Barry, author of the 2004 book, The Great Influenza, draws parallels between today's pandemic and the flu of 1918. In both cases, he says,... What The 1918 Flu Pandemic Can Tell Us About The ...

In short, on at least two occasions — in June 2023 and June 2024 — Kennedy said he had read what he described as " strong " and " good " evidence linking the 1918 influenza outbreak to vaccine ...

Here is a sample of what they remember: "I was 6 years old at the time. We had the flu in our home. I had three sisters; they all had it. Everyone had it except for my father and me. I don't know how ...

EUGENE, OR -- A 103-year-old Oregon woman is fearlessly taking on her second pandemic. Bernice Homan recently received her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. She lived through the 1918 flu pandemic, ...