In 1918, the world was at war. While soldiers fought each other on the frontlines, an even greater threat emerged, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some experts have raised alarms about the potential for another pandemic as numbers of H5N1 avian influenza infections rise in ...

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 ...

The deadly H5 bird flu has finally hit Australia. Here's how other nations have coped with the virus.

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 ...

If you own backyard chickens or recently built a backyard chicken coop, the current bird flu outbreak has probably crossed ...

John Eicher, associate professor of history at Penn State Altoona, has published an article on the 1918 influenza pandemic in the journal Contemporary European History. Analyzing nearly 1,000 memories ...

Michael Osterholm, University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy director, was driving to the airport the morning of Dec. 30, 2019, when his cellphone rang. A colleague was ...

It's spring, the birds are migrating and bird flu (H5N1) is rapidly evolving into the possibility of a human pandemic. Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Public Health have ...

Aside from maybe high school biology classes, the first time many people heard of mRNA was during the pandemic because of the vital role MRNA technology played in COVID-19 vaccines. As the building ...

Since 1945, the U.S. military mandated flu vaccines—until Hegseth changed things earlier this year.

Knowing the difference between endemic, epidemic, and pandemic helps people better understand public health updates and disease-related news. These terms provide important information about how widely ...