Nineteen-year-old U.S. Army Pvt. David Lewis set out from Fort Dix on a 50-mile hike with his unit on Feb. 5, 1976. On that ...
Much to Palese's surprise, when they compared the spot pattern of the 1977 H1N1 Russian flu with a variety of other influenza ...
The real name for swine flu is H1N1 flu. It is called swine flu because a virus that causes this flu also causes flu in pigs. You cannot get this flu from eating pork, bacon, sausages, or any ...
How an accidental virus release triggered 1977’s ‘Russian flu.' ...
So, the 1977 Russian flu virus was actually a strain that had disappeared from the planet a quarter century early, then was somehow resurrected back into circulation. This explained why it attacked ...
The authors are grateful to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-CCMB), India, for encouragement and support for this work. NIH Awards (R37DA025576; R01MH085259) also support SK ...
Person-to-person transmission is still rare, but if the virus further mutates to make this easy, there is the potential for a ...
The highest death toll recorded was 288 children who died from the flu in the 2009-10 season, at the height of the H1N1 swine flu pandemic. Most of the 199 total children who died from the virus ...
the RNA fragments created a unique fingerprint-like map of spots. Much to Palese’s surprise, when they compared the spot pattern of the 1977 H1N1 Russian flu with a variety of other influenza vi ...