“The Spanish influenza from 1918 is still a big mystery and riddle because there are so many questions [about] what really happened at the time,” study coauthor Thorsten Wolff, a respiratory virus ...

The history of influenza vaccine and the associated technology shows how the vaccine has evolved to match the evolution of influenza viruses. Box 1. Current nomenclature for influenza viruses (WHO ...

Periodically, the yearly flu transforms into a particularly virulent strain, like the Spanish flu that killed millions of people in 1918. How do these pandemic strains arise? Aa Aa Aa Although ...

The first research programs attempting to develop an inactivated influenza vaccine, outside of the USSR, were conducted in England and in the USA at about the same time. However, it was at the ...

Each human and mammalian infection gives the virus an opportunity to mutate and evolve better ways of transmitting from ...

The Global Virus Network (GVN), representing eminent human and animal virologists from 80+ Centers of Excellence and ...

The good news is that people can take basic measures to slow down the evolution of H5N1 and potentially reduce the lethality of avian influenza should it ever become a common human infection.