by Scott Ashley
Could a global catastrophe like the 1918 flu outbreak happen again? At the moment, it appears that the COVID-19 pandemic will not prove as deadly as first thought. But it has had a terrible global impact in various other ways. And much...
by Don Hooser
Some health officials fear that the current outbreak of swine flu may already be pandemic. A pandemic is a global epidemic, one that spreads from nation to nation.
by Jerold Aust, John Ross Schroeder
According to The Guardian, "Doctors at the Church of Scotland Hospital in Tugela Ferry [in South Africa] were already grappling with the onslaught of AIDS and its partner in death, tuberculosis."
by Cecil Maranville
We have to prepare for this flu in the same way that we would prepare for going to war, calling the disease "a natural bioterrorist."