New maps show how 1889 Russian flu rode the rails to circle the globe in months

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - 14:50 in Health & Medicine

Many people assume that the 2009 H1N1 pandemic spread rapidly across the globe largely due to the sheer number of people hopping onto planes . But more than 120 years ago, trains and ships alone sped...

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