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CNN — Pandemic: It's a scary word. But the world has seen pandemics before, and worse ones, too. Consider the influenza pandemic of 1918, often referred to erroneously as the "Spanish flu." ...

From the closing of borders to mandatory quarantines, governments around the world are taking drastic steps to try to contain the coronavirus pandemic. Past outbreaks provide a blueprint for ...

A pair of lungs preserved over a century ago from a deceased Spanish flu patient has helped unravel the genetic adaptations undergone by the virus to spread across Europe during the start of the 1918 ...

The preserved lung of an 18-year-old Swiss man has been used to create the full genome of the 1918 "Spanish flu," the first complete influenza A genome with a precise date from Europe. It offers new ...

The 1918 influenza pandemic remains the deadliest in modern history, killing tens of millions — and leaving scientists with enduring questions about how it began. A century later, a virologist and ...

Scientists in Switzerland have cracked open a century-old viral mystery by decoding the genome of the 1918 influenza virus from a preserved Zurich patient. This ancient RNA revealed that the virus had ...

The U.S. is entering a winter holiday season like no other seen in the last 100 years as COVID-19 cases surge nationwide. The country faced a similar scenario in 1918, as the holidays came shortly ...

In short, on at least two occasions — in June 2023 and June 2024 — Kennedy said he had read what he described as " strong " and " good " evidence linking the 1918 influenza outbreak to vaccine ...