The idea is biologically plausible and historically grounded—and it reframes how we think about the origin of pandemics.

Apr. 22, 2025 — A multi-state study reveals that many high-risk adults diagnosed with influenza (flu) in emergency departments and urgent care centers are not receiving timely antiviral treatment.

ALTOONA, Pa. — A forthcoming book of poems by Erin Murphy, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, has been highlighted in an advance review. "Human Resources," Murphy’s 10th full-length ...

The flu sickens millions of people in the U.S. every year, and the past year has been particularly tough. Although infections are trending downward, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Before he could be sent home he caught the flu and died there at the start of 1919. Early on in her account of the global epidemic, Laura Spinney tries to identify the origins of the disease. It ...

Ahead of spring turkey hunting season, Massachusetts officials are warning hunters to watch out for bird flu. Bird flu, or avian influenza, is a disease caused by viruses found in wild birds and ...

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 ...

Kennedy Jr. said he had read "articles" and "evidence" linking the start of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic, known as the Spanish flu, to vaccine research. Kennedy described these articles as "strong ...

Age shift during the 1918 pandemic was extreme, in which the majority of deaths occurred among individuals under 45 years of age, sparing people above this age. During the 2009 influenza pandemic ...

She has been working at PEOPLE since 2017. Primetta Giacopini, who lived through World War II and the Great Influenza pandemic of 1918, has died after a battle with COVID. She was 105.

We wondered if we could find old cartoons from our archives from the Spanish Influenza epidemic in 1918 and see if the themes in them were relatable to today’s coronavirus pandemic. In fact ...