Today, few Americans remember the 1957 bird flu pandemic – the one that sputtered out before it did real damage. Will we get lucky again?

In 1918, a strain of influenza known as Spanish flu caused a global pandemic, spreading rapidly and killing indiscriminately.

All indicators point to the likelihood that the ongoing 2024-2025 flu season will surpass recent years’ figures for both ...

The Brandywine Museum’s exhibition of Barbara Shermund’s cartoons aligns with the New Yorker magazine’s 100th anniversary.

East Tennessee State University researchers have examined the devastating effects of the 1918 Spanish flu in Appalachia, uncovering lessons that resonate in the wake of COVID-19.

Around the world five years ago, alarms began ringing about a new coronavirus that scientists named SARS-CoV-2.

A growing number of felines have fallen sick. Though they have not transmitted the illness to people, scientists fear the ...

It is impossible to read about Mr. Macfadden — who was using the term “medical freedom” in 1920 — without thinking about ...

All four flu pandemics — in 1918, 1957 and 1968 and the swine flu pandemic of 2009 — were caused by Type A viruses. Influenza B viruses, however, only circulate in humans. They are divided ...

Iris de Freitas Brazao was a legal luminary who shattered the profession’s glass ceiling in the Caribbean. She had the ...

Today in History for Feb. 27: ...