In the early 20th century, science was sufficiently sophisticated to anticipate that influenza, which had twice reached pandemic proportions in the late 19th century, would recur, but was largely ...

A pandemic more than half a century ago is still leaving a deadly legacy. Queensland's former chief health officer Dr John Gerrard was a six-year-old when he lost his eldest brother Stephen during the ...

Of all the pathogens that have plagued humanity, few are as notorious and persistent as influenza. Its Houdini-like ability to regularly slip the shackles of vaccine- or infection-induced immunity, ...