Why it’s too early to compare COVID-19 with the flu Experts say likening novel coronavirus to the flu understates what’s at stake. To fight the next major pandemic, flu hunters turn to these ...

In a breakthrough for influenza research, scientists have discovered immune cells that can recognize influenza (flu) viruses ...

A university professor and two students recreated a virus identical to the one that caused the devastating 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. If they can do it, so can terrorists. “The Terrorism Warning ...

This article was first published Nov. 2, 2005. The disease didn’t discriminate. It took the lives of Chaska baker Mathias Buesgens, 25, and Chanhassen farmer Reinhard Molnau, 32, and a young ...

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.

Mark Twain, American author The world is a curious place. Every day we make history by doing the same thing we did yesterday. We ...

Most of the bird flu cases reported so far in the U.S. have belonged to an influenza subtype known as HPAI H5N1. The newly ...

Lakeland historian LaFancine Burton wrote in The Lakelander that Simpson “was noted in the newspaper in 1917-1918 for coming up with a cure for the Spanish flu. Even though there was segregation ...