Nineteen-year-old U.S. Army Pvt. David Lewis set out from Fort Dix on a 50-mile hike with his unit on Feb. 5, 1976. On that bitter cold day, he collapsed and died. Autopsy specimens unexpectedly ...

From 1976: At least 15 people had died of a flu outbreak in Spokane County, adding to fears that a “swine flu” epidemic had reached Spokane. “The grim statistics, which follow an influenza epidemic, ...

As more and more people receive the H1N1 shot, an earlier vaccine is casting a mysterious shadow over the attempt to immunize 200 million people in the next few months. A vaccine made in 1976 in ...

A new study has identified an influenza virus circulating in pigs that shows multiple traits associated with pandemic potential. Known as H1N2, the virus belongs to a lineage of flu viruses that ...

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Influenza: Virus and History -- ch. 2 The Forgotten Pandemic Remembered -- ch. 3 Breakthroughs -- ch. 4 Setbacks -- ch. 5 The Forecast Calls for Pandemics -- ch.

In the early 20th century, science was sufficiently sophisticated to anticipate that influenza, which had twice reached pandemic proportions in the late 19th century, would recur, but was largely ...