1918 Flu Epidemic Teaching Valuable Lessons
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New analysis of how American cities responded to the killer Spanish flu of 1918 suggests that closing schools, banning large gatherings, staggering work hours and quarantining households of the ill may have saved tens of thousands of lives.
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Giving care home staff flu jabs can cut the number of illnesses and deaths among resident.
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WASHINGTON - The reddish bacterium to blame for this yearâs shortage of flu vaccine has a colorful history. Until the 1960s, Serratia marcescens was considered harmless - so safe, in fact, that the military
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When the flu hits and you&#39;re confined to bed, bath and not very far beyond, remember that you&#39;re suffering from the free-market flu.
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More than 200,000 people are hospitalized each year because of flu-related illnesses, far more than the 114,000 annual hospitalizations previously estimated, researchers at the
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BANGKOK - A 26-year-old woman who died of avian flu eight days ago almost certainly contracted the disease from her daughter in what could be the first documented case of human to human transmission of the virus, health officials say.
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At the height of the flu pandemic in 1918, William H. Sardo Jr. remembers the pine caskets stacked in the living room of his family's house, a funeral home in Washington, D.C.
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Hong Kong's government has ordered schools to step up precautions against influenza as another child came down with a mysterious respiratory infection.
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The 1918 Spanish flu that killed up to   50 million people worldwide caused a severe immune response   which may help to explain why it was so deadly, American   scientists said on Wednesday.
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Airline travel has a significant effect on the spread of influenza, a new study reports.
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A 90-year-old nursing home patient died from the stomach flu last year, marking the first time U.S. health officials confirmed that the highly contagious bug is sometimes fatal.
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Scientists have shown that tiny changes to modern flu viruses could render them as deadly as the 1918 strain which killed millions.
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The flu season is not here yet, but the shortage has prompted an uncertain triage of prevention.
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A small Japanese study suggests that influenza viruses are becoming resistant to Tamiflu, a widely used drug that eases the flu&#39;s symptoms, and that the resistance may be more common than thought.
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Pupils at a primary school are offered  bird flu medicine as a child from the school is believed to have the virus.
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Scientists who synthesized two genes  from the virus that caused the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic  said Thursday they have a found new clues about what made it so  deadly.
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Recent flu seasons dominated by more severe strains of flu and an aging US population that&#39;s more vulnerable to disease have caused a jump in the number of hospitalizations and deaths from the respiratory illness.