Ordinary seasonal influenza viruses normally bind only to cells in the upper respiratory tract—the nose and throat—which is why they transmit easily. The 1918 pandemic virus infected cells in ...

Influenza B has never caused a pandemic. An influenza A strain called H1N1 caused the famous 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, which killed about 50 million people worldwide. A related H1N1 virus was ...

It has been shown in vitro to cover all major influenza A strains that have arisen since the 1918 ‘Spanish flu’ pandemic and is designed as a universal prophylactic for influenza A.

Trevor Grundy revisits the pandemic that killed between 30 to 50m people at the end of WW1 London - The rise of antibiotic superbugs poses what the British Prime Minister David Cameron calls "an ...