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Doctors dismissed Spanish flu as being a 'minor infection' before the 1918 pandemic

Doctors in the early 1900s dismissed Spanish flu as a 'minor infection' just years before it killed 50million people, according to scientists. Countless lives could have been saved if medics had taken ... read more

Spanish flu may have lingered two years before 1918 outbreak and vaccine could have treated it

The most severe pandemic in recent history, killing some 50 million people worldwide, the Spanish influenza, may have emerged up to two years earlier than previously believed. And, according to a ... read more

How Vaccines And Vigilance Could Have Stopped The Worst Pandemic Of Modern Times

At least 50 million people – 3 percent of the world's population – were killed by the Spanish influenza pandemic that swept across the planet, considerably more lives lost than in World War I, which ... read more

U.S. Disease Chief: Why Everyone Should Get a Flu Shot

Now one hundred years ago around 1918 1919 about 100 million people in the world were killed by influenza. Why was that. Could they not treat it better than those days. It was a pandemic and a ... read more

Flu Detection Device Market: Rising Geriatric Population and Advancements in Influenza Diagnostics Tests to Drive the Market Growth

Flu usually spreads during seasonal epidemics, which brings about deaths of thousands of people every year and millions during pandemic outbreaks. According to a World Health Organization report, ... read more

Plague and zoonotic influenza warning: CDC names EIGHT diseases which could spark pandemic

In the week in which a Norwegian woman died after contracting rabies in the Phillipines, the diseases are on a list of eight highlighted by the US-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ... read more

Hey, let’s fight global pandemics by maybe starting one… Say WHAT?

Feed a cold, starve a fever … mutate the flu? A couple of labs in Wisconsin and The Netherlands ... But now the US government is funding these same labs again to artificially enhance potentially ... read more

A ten-year China-US laboratory collaboration: improving response to influenza threats in China and the world, 2004–2014

avian influenza and other influenza viruses with pandemic potential. In September 2007, the USCDC deployed the first influenza assignee to China and established a USCDC program team in China, ... read more

Flu season hitting Australia faster and harder than ever before

Two years ago, Australia's horror flu season claimed 1255 lives. It's too early to say if this year will match it. But for New Zealand, an Australian pandemic would be only a flight away. Dr Nikki ... read more

Flu is surging, and it's up to GPs and microbiologists to stay on top of the virus' changing nature

Less frequent is shift, which often originates in animal populations like birds and pigs, and once caught by humans can create pandemic global outbreaks. The most recent shift was the 2009 outbreak of ... read more

St. Jude gets $34M to study flu virus

An association between exposure early in life and susceptibility to flu infection has been found in prior research on pandemic outbreaks. The grant comes from the National Institutes of Allergy and ... read more

Triple the flu deaths this year

the worst year since the 2009 pandemic. Victorian figures released yesterday showed 26 people, including­ three children aged 3, 6 and 11, had died of flu in the state during the current season. The ... read more