RFK Jr. has suggested vaccines caused 1918 Spanish flu pandemic at least twice
Kennedy Jr. falsely claiming that vaccines caused the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic known as the Spanish flu. One Facebook ...
USA Today11d
As anti-vaccine disinformation takes hold, more Americans dying of the flu
Flu deaths in the U.S. reached a seven-year high in early 2025. Experts suggest vaccine hesitancy and the relaxation of ...
Cleveland.com29d
Egg-based flu vaccine production secure despite avian influenza
During the 1918-1910 flu pandemic ... The first clinical trials of influenza vaccines were conducted in the mid-1930s. In 1938, medical researchers Jonas Salk and Thomas Francis Jr. used the ...
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SD flu fatality rates among highest in US amid anti-vaccine disinformation
As vaccine skepticism gains a greater foothold in the Trump administration and some statehouses, some Americans may already be paying the price, with deaths from influenza on the rise. Flu-related ...
Springfield News-Leader11d
As anti-vaccine disinformation takes hold, more Americans dying of the flu
Flu deaths in the U.S. reached a seven-year high in early 2025. Experts suggest vaccine hesitancy and the relaxation of vaccine requirements contributed to the surge in deaths. The U.S. Department ...