influenza

In Ridley Scott’s simple-minded sociological study “The Dog Stars,” an influenza epidemic wiped out the majority of our squabblesome species sometime during the last decade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Australian wildlife workers have launched an unprecedented effort to vaccinate wild populations of little penguins against the highly contagious H5N1 avian influenza.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

The agency finally clears a melanoma drug and an mRNA influenza vaccine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Emily Burton, conservation manager, said: "Gannet populations have suffered significant declines, and many colonies are still recovering from the impacts of avian influenza."

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

But this was not because they were unchanged holdovers from humankind’s ancient past but because smallpox and influenza laid waste to their villages in the 1920s.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Human contact with nonhuman animals accounts for our influenzas as well, which usually emerge from wild aquatic birds.

From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2023

That’s because avian and swine influenzas have caused pandemics in humans, including the 1918 flu pandemic, which was caused by a virus that originated in birds, and the 2009 swine flu pandemic.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 24, 2023

The material was tested in the laboratory against four types of virus - two influenzas, the Covid virus and a picornavirus, which has the traits that make a virus highly stable outside the body.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2022

“In the last 20 years we’ve had many of these pathogens emerge or re-emerge: SARS, MERS, different avian influenzas, Zika, yellow fever and of course SARS-CoV-2,” van Kerkhove said.

From Reuters ● Aug. 20, 2021

He comes to the conclusion that influenzas and colds are contagious—a doctrine which, a century and a half later, was proved, through the advance of bacteriological science, to be sound.

From Four American Leaders by Charles William Eliot