Searched for
1918 FLU PANDEMIC
People across Europe, North America slept for days or stared blankly for hours during this 100-year-old strange epidemic and scientists are still searching whyDuring the 1918 flu pandemic, a mysterious illness, encephalitis lethargica, emerged in Europe and North America, causing extreme sleepines...- Swiss researchers decode ancient “influenza virus” genome from preserved pandemic victimScientists have successfully decoded the genome of the 1918 influenza virus from a preserved Swiss patient sample. The research reveals tha...
- What is Disease X? WHO panel to debate on deadly virus that could kill 20 times more than Covid-19Disease X: The cause of mysterious Disease X is currently unknown, yet it is considered a serious microbial threat. The World Health Organi...
- What is Disease X? Here's all we know about the next pandemic that could kill 50 million peopleFormer Chair of the UK Vaccine Taskforce, Kate Bingham, has warned that the next pandemic could be deadlier than COVID-19, potentially clai...
- 105-yr-old woman who survived 1918 flu, World War II succumbs to COVIDPrimetta Giacopini's life ended the way it began - in a pandemic.
- In 1918, people dropped whisky into their noses to treat Spanish flu. What else we know about eyebrow- raising 'cures'Between 1918 and 1920, newspapers were flooded with Spanish flu cures of all kinds.
- People gave up on measures during 1918 influenza pandemic and paid a priceThe pandemic wore on, stretching into a third deadly wave that lasted through the spring of 1919.
- Global coronavirus cases to soon surpass 30 million as pandemic shows no signs of slowingIndia was firmly in focus as the latest epicentre, although North and South America combined accounted for almost half of the global cases.
- World Health Organisation chief hopes pandemic ends in two years"We hope to finish this pandemic (in) less than two years, especially if we can pool our efforts," he said during a press briefing on Frida...
- All lives matter: Why has Covid-19 seen lockdowns on an unprecedented scale?A little over 100 years ago, Spanish flu killed about 15 million people in India. Mahatma Gandhi too came down with it but it failed to mak...
- India’s top adviser sees V-shaped recovery if virus is containedIndia’s top economic adviser said a V-shaped recovery is possible this year, provided a Covid vaccine is found.
- Post-Covid scenario: Swoosh, pipe, Z, L & W… shape of our futurePredicting recovery graphs, economists add cool shapes to plain vanilla V or U trajectories. There’s the Swoosh, a recovery pattern that lo...
- Coronavirus-afflicted 2020 looks like 1918 despite science's marchIn 1918, no one had a vaccine, treatment or cure for the great flu pandemic as it ravaged the world and killed more than 50 million people....
- View: Adjusting to the new normal won't be easyEver since humans moved out of Africa, there has been a rate of transmission of interactions to this end, sharing information and knowledge...
- An unwanted shipment: The Indian experience of the 1918 Spanish fluWhile some realities have only marginally changed over the last century, the nature of the administration has drastically transformed from ...
- US virus deaths could reach 200,000: FauciDr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, estimated in an interview with CNN that the pande...
- 108-yr-old woman, who survived Spanish flu pandemic, becomes oldest in UK to die from coronavirusShe passed away on Saturday at her care home in Salford city - less than 24 hours after testing positive for COVID-19, the daily said. She ...
- There is a ‘tipping point’ before coronavirus killsOne in seven patients develops difficulty breathing and other severe complications, while 6 per cent become critical. These patients typica...
- Global markets have 3 coronavirus scenarios to considerThere is a tendency among investors to concentrate on the direct short-term effects.
- Eureka! Universal flu vaccine developed to prevent global pandemicsAccording to the World Health Organisation (WHO), annual flu epidemics are estimated to cause up to half a million deaths globally.
Load More
