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.

The outbreak of this influenza virus, also known as Spanish flu, spread with astonishing speed around the world, overwhelming India, and reaching Australia and the remote Pacific islands.

New drugs, such as zanamivir (Relenza), can inhibit the ability of the flu virus to proliferate by blocking the activity of the neuraminidase enzyme. When the Spanish flu pandemic hit, doctors ...

These findings challenge the current hypothesis regarding the pathogenicity of the Spanish flu virus, which argues ... Community structure and metabolism through reconstruction of microbial ...

Kennedy Jr. falsely claiming that vaccines caused the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic known as the Spanish flu. One Facebook post (archived) with around 105,000 reactions at the time of this writing ...

Highly contagious, the flu virus passes through the air via water ... Health officials fear a repeat of the Great Spanish Influenza of 1918, in which an estimated one billion people came down ...

the Spanish flu in 1918 infected one-third of the world's population, causing millions of deaths. These examples illustrate that viruses can be deadly and spread rapidly. If a virus were to emerge ...

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 ...

After that, victims eventually suffocated. No one knows where the Spanish flu started, but recent studies show that the virus may have emerged when strains of pig and human flu infected the same ...

Gloria Lisin, vice mayor of Rimini, said the man — only identified as Mr. P — made "history" by surviving the virus Joelle Goldstein ... in 1919 during the Spanish Flu pandemic, the Italian ...