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 ...
In 2009, the world met a new influenza virus that travelled faster than many public-health systems could track it. First detected in Mexico and the United States in April that year, the novel ...
Our most recent flu pandemic—2009’s H1N1 “swine flu”—was, in absolute terms, a public-health crisis. By scientists’ best estimates, roughly 200,000 to 300,000 people around the world died; countless ...
A new study has identified an influenza virus circulating in pigs that shows multiple traits associated with pandemic potential. Known as H1N2, the virus belongs to a lineage of flu viruses that ...
Mexicans protect themselves from the swine flu virus at the Mixcoac health center in Mexico CityLuis Acosta / AFP / Getty World Health Organization (WHO) officials declared a pandemic of H1N1 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vaccine research quickly picked up to try to prevent a possible flu pandemic in 1976. AP Photo Nineteen-year-old U.S. Army Pvt.