influenza

Flu hit early last winter, with a new mutated version of the virus circulating - a seasonal influenza called subclade K or Super-K.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

In Ridley Scott’s simple-minded sociological study “The Dog Stars,” an influenza epidemic wiped out the majority of our squabblesome species sometime during the last decade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Australian wildlife workers have launched an unprecedented effort to vaccinate wild populations of little penguins against the highly contagious H5N1 avian influenza.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

The agency finally clears a melanoma drug and an mRNA influenza vaccine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

“I don’t know much about this influenza, but I know sagebrush tea’s good for most of what ails.”

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

Human contact with nonhuman animals accounts for our influenzas as well, which usually emerge from wild aquatic birds.

From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2023

That’s because avian and swine influenzas have caused pandemics in humans, including the 1918 flu pandemic, which was caused by a virus that originated in birds, and the 2009 swine flu pandemic.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 24, 2023

Food standards bodies advise that avian influenzas pose a very low food safety risk for UK consumers.

From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2022

“In the last 20 years we’ve had many of these pathogens emerge or re-emerge: SARS, MERS, different avian influenzas, Zika, yellow fever and of course SARS-CoV-2,” van Kerkhove said.

From Reuters ● Aug. 20, 2021

But I must take my baby and daughter with me, as they have not fully recovered from their influenzas, and I should not dare to trust them away from me.”

From Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity by Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard