Spain has alerted the World Health Organisation of what it believes to be a person-to-person transmission of the swine flu virus in its A(H1N1)v variant, a spokesperson for health authorities in the ...

Ever since a deadly strain of avian influenza, H5N1, killed some 17,000 southern elephant seal pups on South American coastlines in 2023 and 2024, researchers and public officials have kept an ...

Researchers have found avian flu in elephant seal pups at California’s Año Nuevo State Park, and officials have stopped ...

A mess cook's sick call visit at Camp Funston became the first recorded military case of an outbreak that killed more U.S. soldiers than the Germans did in WWI.

I read with great interest and serious concern the article in the Union Leader “Ancient Microbes survived ice age, and a NH ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. In the fall of ...

In the fall of 1918, Edward Kidder Graham, the president of the University of North Carolina, tried to reassure anxious parents. The Spanish flu was spreading rapidly, but Graham insisted the ...

In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately. Young, old, sick and otherwise-healthy people all became infected — at ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Newly released data show influenza activity across Virginia improved last week, following a stretch that prompted some local hospitals to require masks for patients showing flu-like ...

Hospitals in Central Virginia are reinforcing mask requirements due to a rise in flu and other respiratory illnesses. The Virginia Department of Health reports that 23% of emergency room visits this ...