In early March, while the remaining Democratic presidential contenders were sprinting across the country in search of primary victories, the COVID-19 pandemic was taking its own destructive path ...

In 1924 Encyclopædia Britannica published a two-volume history of the 20th century thus far. More than 80 authors—professors and politicians, soldiers and scientists—contributed chapters to These ...

If the outbreak of COVID-19 has a bullseye in the U.S., it's Washington State. Schools and universities closed, a gauge of alarm here. Seen in Seattle: a lot of masks. But not for the first time.

This isn’t the first time leaders have struggled with deciding whether to keep schools open in a pandemic. During the influenza pandemic in 1918, even though the world was a very different place, the ...

Spinney is the author of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World. As the world grapples with a global health emergency that is COVID-19, many are drawing parallels with a ...

The authors' conclusion is based on DNA sequences from three RNA-polymerase genes, each of which resides on a separate RNA segment of the viral genome. The nucleotide phylogenies that they present 1 ...

Spinney is the author of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World. “We were leaden-footed for weeks, to the point where each step meant a determined effort,” Miss Goring ...

Two new studies on the flu were published this week. The first, in the journal Nature, found that some people in their 90s — who were 2 to 10 years old when the pandemic hit — still had antibodies to ...

The source of the influenza illness remained a mystery to scientists as viruses were too small and obscure for the optical microscopes available in 1918. Credit: Naval Historical Society Of these, an ...

When the novel coronavirus pandemic hit Asia, people across the region were quick to wear masks, with some places like Taiwan and the Philippines even making them mandatory in certain scenarios. But ...

The big, striving city on the south coast moved fairly quickly at the first signs of danger — shutting down bars, pool halls, sporting events and more. Its rival to the north waited at least a week ...

We have just commemorated the centenary of the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918, which lasted only a few months but claimed 50 million to 100 million lives worldwide, including 675,000 in the United States.