influenza

Plagues have existed throughout history, said Heeney, from the Black Death of the Middle Ages ages to the 1918-20 influenza pandemic which killed an estimated 25-50 million globally.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

The company's vaccine development pipeline also includes candidates targeting seasonal influenza, pandemic influenza threats, hemorrhagic fever viruses, and coronaviruses including SARS-CoV-2.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026

That is lower than for measles and some strains of Covid-19 but higher than for influenza.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026

"The symptoms are classically of respiratory illness, rather like a severe influenza infection or Covid-19 - people get very breathless," said centre director Prof Emma Thomson.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

The greatest single epidemic in human history was the one of influenza that killed 21 million people at the end of the First World War.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

Mr. Joseph Kilgore was suffering from one of those spring influenzas which make a man feel as if he were his own grandfather.

From Two Days' Solitary Imprisonment 1898 by Bellamy, Edward