Influenza Pandemic (1918)

WASHINGTON -- Mass production of a new vaccine that scientists believe can protect against an avian flu outbreak could begin as early as mid-September, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said yesterday. Dr....

The number of swine flu cases in Mexico is stabilizing. In the U.S., though more people are being diagnosed with the virus, cases have been mostly mild, claiming two lives. And health officials have backed off on closing schools where students are sick....

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This story contains corrected material, published Oct. 12, 2005. Government researchers have remade the deadly "Spanish flu" virus responsible for the 1918 global outbreak that killed up to 50 million people, a resurrection they hope will reveal...

In the face of an uncertain threat that avian flu could cause a new pandemic, political leaders at every level are grappling with the disquieting fact that the United States has almost no ability to stop an outbreak of the disease if it strikes here soon....

During the late summer of 1918, Americans were gripped by news from the European front as World War I neared its end. They didn't dream that a larger, more deadly battle would soon be fought on U.S. soil. The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed about 500,...

Sick himself with influenza, one of Baltimore's most prominent doctors wrote a letter to the family of one of Baltimore's most promising researchers, fatally stricken as he tried to combat the 1918 influenza epidemic. In the letter, William H. Welch, the...

Encouraged by successes in Vietnam and elsewhere, public health experts say that quarantines, border checks and other aggressive measures to contain SARS are working and may prevent it from becoming a persistent scourge. "It sure as hell can be...

WASHINGTON - The 1918 flu epidemic, which killed 20 million people worldwide, appears to be more birdlike than previously thought, according to findings by U.S. and British researchers that could help explain why it was the deadliest influenza strain ever...

They gathered around a hotel conference table in Howard County, planning for what might be Maryland's worst public health crisis. The public health and safety experts spun a shocking scenario arising from the threat of an avian flu pandemic from Asia:...

There is no way that South Florida can be spared the effects of the AIDS calamity in the Caribbean. The region is so tightly linked through culture, race, ethnicity and economics that any public health crisis in the islands is felt here. In a highly...