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 ...

John Eicher, associate professor of history at Penn State Altoona, has published an article on the 1918 influenza pandemic in the journal Contemporary European History. Analyzing nearly 1,000 memories ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A scientist harvests H7N9 virus growing in bird eggs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received samples of the virus from China. — James Gathany/CDC/Douglas E. Jordan / (CC0 1.0) ...

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.

Oct. 5 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1918, Germany's Hindenburg Line was broken as World War I neared an end. In 1921, the World Series is broadcast on the radio for the first time. In 1935, ...