As the world’s most infamous flu pandemic (often referred to as the Spanish flu) raged from 1918–1920, scientists had very few tools available to help them combat or understand the disease.

New drugs, such as zanamivir (Relenza), can inhibit the ability of the flu virus to proliferate by blocking the activity of the neuraminidase enzyme. When the Spanish flu pandemic hit, doctors ...

These findings challenge the current hypothesis regarding the pathogenicity of the Spanish flu virus, which argues ... Community structure and metabolism through reconstruction of microbial ...

The outbreak of this influenza virus, also known as Spanish flu, spread with astonishing speed around the world, overwhelming India, and reaching Australia and the remote Pacific islands.

the Spanish flu in 1918 infected one-third of the world's population, causing millions of deaths. These examples illustrate that viruses can be deadly and spread rapidly. If a virus were to emerge ...

After that, victims eventually suffocated. No one knows where the Spanish flu started, but recent studies show that the virus may have emerged when strains of pig and human flu infected the same ...

Late in the spring of 1918 the Spanish wire service Agencia ... about the origin or nature of the killer virus. Many believe the modern "swine flu" virus is a descendant of the deadly 1918 flu.

Gloria Lisin, vice mayor of Rimini, said the man — only identified as Mr. P — made "history" by surviving the virus Joelle Goldstein ... in 1919 during the Spanish Flu pandemic, the Italian ...