What can the 1918 Flu epidemic teach us about COVID-19, asks Professor Marc Zimmer. CC Magazine: The Spanish Flu didn’t start in Spain. Why did the Iberian country get stuck with the name? Marc Zimmer ...

As the world’s most infamous flu pandemic (often referred to as the Spanish flu) raged from 1918–1920, scientists had very few tools available to help them combat or understand the disease.

There is a cemetery in a small railroad town in northern Ohio where I grew up that tells a sliver of the story of the great ‘Spanish’ influenza pandemic of 1918. One section of the cemetery is ...

How do genomes from E. coli and yeast help researchers? They shed light on the basic principles of genomics. The Human Microbiome Project sequences microbial genomes for this purpose. These ...

Late in the spring of 1918 the Spanish wire service Agencia Fabra sent cables of an unusual nature to Reuter's news service headquarters in London. "A strange form of disease of epidemic character ...

A man spraying an anti-flu preparation on a London General Omnibus Co bus to try to kill the Spanish flu virus in London in 1920 Nobody is certain about the origins of Spanish influenza (usually ...

No matter where you look up the meaning of the word “plague”, it’s never a good thing. It can be confusing, because as a verb, plague means “to cause continual distress”, yet as a noun ...