NEW ORLEANS — As the government mandates drastic measures to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, the question on many people’s minds is, why didn’t we see a similar response to other recent ...

No, H1N1 didn’t kill 574,000 Americans If Your Time is short • The post cites the number of H1N1 deaths worldwide. The context makes clear that Biden was citing the number of H1N1 deaths in the U.S.

A study reveals how childhood flu infections impact long-term mortality risk, highlighting implications for vaccination and ...

February 24, 2009 Patient zero is said to be a 6-month-old girl from northern Mexico, according to Celia Alpuche of the Institute of Epidemiological Diagnosis and Reference in Mexico City. (Cohen J.

When the state released its most recent report Friday on the flu situation in California, one number stood out as particularly alarming: 95 deaths. That's the total of deaths reported to the state ...

President-elect Joe Biden named Ron Klain as his White House chief of staff on Wednesday – and the longtime Biden aide, who worked as an Obama administration Ebola response coordinator, is on record ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. As the coronavirus threat has escalated in recent weeks, ...

Six months later, Chan’s admonitions seem prescient. Rich countries’ hoards have become massive surpluses, and many nations are now trying frantically to cancel pending orders of vaccines or transfer ...

Public health officials have been warning for some time that nothing about the flu is predictable. But here’s something that is: When it comes to a new strain of the flu like H1N1, which has already ...

Infection with H1N1 influenza (also called swine flu) may put individuals, particularly children, at greater risk of subsequent type 1 diabetes, suggests new research. Infection with H1N1 influenza ...

Here’s a look at the H1N1 influenza virus, also known as swine flu. There was a pandemic outbreak across the globe which lasted from 2009 to 2010. Swine flu is a respiratory disease caused by type A ...