When Dr William Foege died earlier this month, the world mourned the loss of a scientist who helped rid humanity of a virus that had plagued the Earth for thousands of years.
The lesson of the Spanish flu is not that young people inevitably bounce back. It is that institutions endured by waiting. A ...
The deadliest pandemic in modern history killed tens of millions, yet its aftermath quietly transformed economies, labor, and everyday life. From lockdown failures and mass graves to rising wages, new ...
Researchers at WashU Medicine have developed a nasal vaccine against the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus, or bird flu, which has jumped from wild birds to livestock to humans.
A new nasal spray vaccine could stop bird flu at the door — blocking infection, reducing spread, and helping head off the next pandemic.
A growing body of research suggests that everything from the shape of your lungs to how you enunciate your Ts and Ks could make you a flu superspreader.