Some researchers suggested that the Great Influenza Pandemic derived from illnesses recorded in China and in France.  A ...

Scientists have “reconstructed” the genome of the 1918–1920 influenza virus, using a sample from a patient in Switzerland. Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich studied a sample from ...

Researchers from the universities of Basel and Zurich have used a historical specimen from UZH's Medical Collection to decode the genome of the virus responsible for the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic ...

Enemas, bloodletting, and whiskey : treating the flu -- The jolly rant : a history of the virus -- "Something fierce" : the Spanish flu of 1918 -- "Am I gonna die?" : round two, and three, and four ..

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Influenza: Virus and History -- ch. 2 The Forgotten Pandemic Remembered -- ch. 3 Breakthroughs -- ch. 4 Setbacks -- ch. 5 The Forecast Calls for Pandemics -- ch.

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

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 ...