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A child wears a safety mask as a precautionary measure after the Nipah virus outbreak at Kozhikode Medical College. (Photo: PTI)

Science still isn't good at prevention of diseases

In the past 100 years, though, nothing quite as deadly as the so-called Spanish flu has struck the planet.

12 July 2018 1:18 AM IST

Woman who survived Spanish flu dies of Covid19 in UK

The patient passed away on Saturday at her care home in Salford city - less than 24 hours after testing positive for...

29 March 2020 3:45 PM IST

A nurse takes the pulse of a patient in the influenza ward of the Walter Reed hospital in Washington. (AP)

World in 2020 resembles 1918 despite science advance

As in 1918's Spanish flu, people are again hearing hollow assurances at odds with the reality on ground

8 May 2020 11:45 AM IST

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. (AFP)

WHO hopes COVID will be over within two years, quicker than world got...

Western Europe has been enduring the kind of infection levels not seen in many months, particularly in Germany, France,...

22 Aug 2020 3:27 PM IST

Dorene Giacopini holds up a photo of her mother Primetta Giacopini while posing for a photo at her home in Richmond, Calif. on Monday, Sept 27, 2021. (AP/Josh Edelson)

US woman who survived 1918 flu, world war succumbs to COVID

The flu pandemic killed about 675,000 Americans a death toll eclipsed this month by the 2020-21 coronavirus pandemic

1 Oct 2021 11:38 AM IST

An illustration picture taken on November 19, 2020, shows a vial with Covid-19 Vaccine sticker, a syringe and an earth globe. (AFP)

Of Chinese virus, Spanish flu, UK strain: Do points of origin matter?

Of course, viruses, just like us Parsis, are sometimes named after the things we do and sometimes after the places from...

9 Jan 2021 7:38 AM IST

A student receives COVID-19 vaccine dose during a special vaccination drive organised by the Karnataka government for the students, who are going abroad for education and employment, in Bengaluru, June 2, 2021. (PTI /Shailendra Bhojak)

India's vaccine hesitancy is at a high of 74.53 per cent

Those who had seen friends suffer from side-effects of vaccination are not willing to give up their productive days at...

16 Jun 2021 7:29 AM IST

When infection strikes, the body starts making proteins called antibodies specially designed to target that germ. Those antibodies float in survivors blood - specifically plasma, the yellowish liquid part of blood - for months, even years

Blood transfusions, a treatment used for 1918 Spanish Flu, may help...

Patients are infused with blood plasma teeming with immune molecules that helped coronavirus survivors though there's no...

3 April 2020 6:15 PM IST