Nineteen-year-old U.S. Army Pvt. David Lewis set out from Fort Dix on a 50-mile hike with his unit on Feb. 5, 1976. On that bitter cold day, he collapsed and died. Autopsy specimens unexpectedly ...

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Influenza: Virus and History -- ch. 2 The Forgotten Pandemic Remembered -- ch. 3 Breakthroughs -- ch. 4 Setbacks -- ch. 5 The Forecast Calls for Pandemics -- ch.

So sayeth the World Health Organization (WHO)—and they should know, since they were the ones who declared a full, phase six-level pandemic a little more than a year ago. Now it’s done—this morning WHO ...

The last pandemic — the Hong Kong flu of 1968 — killed about 1 million people. Ordinary flu kills about 250,000 to 500,000 people each year. Swine flu is also continuing to spread during the start of ...