Only four to five generations ago, most people, most of the time, died of infectious disease.
At his height of fame in the 1920s, artist John Innes was dubbed “the Remington of the Canadian West.” ...
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But hundreds of thousands of people globally each year won’t survive their bouts with the flu, and millions more will suffer ...
The Forum on Microbial Threats hosted a 1.5-day workshop that provided a venue to examine lessons—both applied lessons and missed opportunities—from a century of major outbreaks and pandemics. As we ...
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How the 1918 flu killed tens of millions

The Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 to 1920 was one of the deadliest events in human history. It spread rapidly across the world during the final year of World War I. Unlike most flu viruses, it killed ...
Subclade K (previously known as J.2.4.1) is gaining attention because it appears to be spreading much earlier in the flu ...
A particularly infectious subvariant of influenza is keeping emergency room numbers high and causing especially severe ...