influenza
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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
Under Kennedy, the U.S. government also canceled Moderna’s contract to develop mRNA-based vaccines for pandemic influenza viruses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 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 researchers studied several disease models, including colon cancer, influenza, and SARS-CoV-2.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
Dr. Victor Vaughn, acting surgeon general of the army, has witnessed firsthand the effects of the influenza at Camp Devens, a military camp near Boston.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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The fresh mutations have happened in a group of H3N2 influenzas.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025
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
“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
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