The preserved lung of an 18-year-old Swiss man has been used to create the full genome of the 1918 "Spanish flu," the first complete influenza A genome with a precise date from Europe. It offers new ...

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, ...

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 ...

Influenza infection is self-limiting in humans, but the virus is notorious for causing substantial mortality and morbidity worldwide. Clinical features of influenza virus infection in humans encompass ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

As the U.S. surpass 675,000 COVID-19 deaths, we look back at the 1918 pandemic. Editors note: Some of the images below are animations showing two images and may take longer to load. There are strong ...