Global Flu Crisis, What We Know and the Many Things We Don’t

We are speaking Italian each time we say “influenza.” It’s the “influence” of the stars on human beings that causes the sickness, according to Italian folklore from centuries past. Influenza entered the English vocabulary in 1703, when J. Hugger of the University of Edinburgh used the word to describe the flu in a medical thesis. Much more is known today about what … Continue reading →