A group of Seattle men line up to receive their influenza vaccines, circa November 1918. (The National Archives and Records Administration) The intense debate over President Donald Trump’s nominee to ...
World War I killed up to 20 million people. The pandemic that followed killed more than twice that. Between 1918 and 1920, ...
An influenza pandemic of the type that ravaged the globe in 1918 and 1919 would kill about 62 million people today, with 96 percent of the deaths occurring in developing countries. That is the ...
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 ...