Successful tests in animal models pave way for strategy for universal flu vaccineAn experimental mRNA-based vaccine against all 20 known subtypes of influenza virus provided broad protection from otherwise lethal flu str...
26 Nov, 2022, 12.04 PM IST
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.
20 Sep, 2021, 07.07 PM IST
View: Pandemics are caused by germs but spread by people who are in denialThe 1918 ‘Spanish’ flu had a mild first wave but returned later in the year to cause havoc. In India there were an estimated 12 to 20 milli...
18 Apr, 2021, 10.11 AM IST
Economic Survey: The barbell strategy that dictated India's response to the coronavirus pandemicThe strategy hedges for a worst outcome initially and then calibrates the response step by step through a feedback mechanism.
29 Jan, 2021, 06.14 PM IST
View: The powerful forces that will propel growth in the next decadeA century later, once the Covid-19 pandemic begins to fade away, we are likely to see another such decade: the Roaring Twenties of the 21st...
18 Dec, 2020, 10.23 AM IST
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...
22 Aug, 2020, 05.34 PM IST
Godrej Consumer Products sees 2020 as 'second beginning' for companyOver a century after making its first soap in 1918 during the Spanish flu pandemic, becoming the first company in the world to produce soap...
15 Jul, 2020, 06.07 PM IST
Stimulus must be in line with tax-GDP ratio, says CEA Krishnamurthy SubramanianSubramanian is optimistic that the economy will stage a better recovery once the outbreak subsides.
08 May, 2020, 10.08 PM IST
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....
05 May, 2020, 10.41 AM IST
Last century's epidemics far more deadly than 21st century'sBefore the emergence late last year of the novel coronavirus, which has now killed more than 100,000 people, the 21st century's epidemics h...
11 Apr, 2020, 04.25 PM IST
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 ...
03 Apr, 2020, 12.53 PM IST
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 ...
29 Mar, 2020, 03.22 PM IST
Houston hospital first in US to try coronavirus blood transfusion therapyThe individual, who has been in good health for more than two weeks since being diagnosed with the deadly coronavirus, donated the blood pl...
29 Mar, 2020, 02.01 PM IST
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.
02 Oct, 2016, 11.03 AM IST
- Is the world staring at the worst health crisis in 90 years?
With the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday raising its alert level to phase five for swine flu, health experts were fearing a sit...
01 May, 2009, 11.53 AM IST
- Pandemic scare
H1N1 strain strikes at a time when the global economy has been laid low.
30 Apr, 2009, 02.34 AM IST
- 40 confirmed swine flu cases in US, no deaths: WHO
The World Health Organization says there are now 40 confirmed cases of swine flu in the United States and that it ``very concerned'' about ...
27 Apr, 2009, 08.13 PM IST