The first swine flu, 1976: The pandemic that wasn't Scary as it is now, the first time swine flu appeared in the States was more of a whimper than a bang. The virus first popped up in early ...

Hilleman, however, needed eggs not for his breakfast, but to make the vaccines that were key to stopping a potential influenza pandemic. Hilleman was born a year after the notorious 1918 influenza ...

There is a cemetery in a small railroad town in northern Ohio where I grew up that tells a sliver of the story of the great ‘Spanish’ influenza pandemic of 1918. One section of the cemetery is ...