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.

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.

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.

Three years have passed since the devastating 60% decline of the world's largest Dalmatian Pelican colony at Lake Prespa in northern Greece ...

President Donald Trump delivered a rambling address to global leaders during the World Economic Forum in Davos.

NCDHHS hosts a Spanish-language event to inform Hispanic communities on protecting against respiratory illnesses.

Senior Federal Reserve officials were in a good mood in January 2020 — but danger was brewing on the other side of the world.

Spartanburg's surging measles cases has prompted Sen. Josh Kimbrell to call for scrutiny of vaccine policy. Health officials ...

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Despite days in close quarters with flu patients, healthy volunteers didn’t get sick – revealing insights into transmission.