Will this pandemic ever end? Well, the fact is — all pandemics DO end. But how do we, as a society, decide we’ve reached that point? There aren’t great templates for this — except one. The end of the ...

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 ...

Crain’s Cleveland Business: John Grabowski, the Krieger-Mueller Joint Professor in History, discussed the similarities—and differences—between the 1918 flu pandemic and the COVID-19 pandemic.

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 ...

In a glass jar at the University of Zurich, a lung has been sitting in silence for more than a hundred years. Preserved in formalin, the organ belonged to an 18-year-old Swiss man who died during the ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. The 1918 influenza pandemic is one of the deadliest in ...

Scientists in Switzerland have cracked open a century-old viral mystery by decoding the genome of the 1918 influenza virus from a preserved Zurich patient. This ancient RNA revealed that the virus had ...

Introduction: An ill wind -- A victim and a survivor -- "Knock me down" fever -- The killer without a name -- The invisible enemy -- One deadly summer -- Know thy enemy -- The fangs of death -- Like ...

Nurses at Creighton University during Spanish flu pandemic in 1918. Steve Liewer In St. Louis, as in other cities, the Motor Corps chapter of the American Red Cross ferried nurse volunteers to ...