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| 1510 onward || Post first pandemic description era || This period begins with the first recognition of pandemic influenza, giving birth to a five centuries period of documented influenza pandemics.
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| 1930s onward || Modern medical development era || Period marking an accelerating time of scientific and medical development including the discovery of the influenza virus in both non-humans (1931) and humans(1933), as well as the first influenza vaccine(1936).
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| 1933 || || Human || Scientific development || British researchers Wilson Smith, Christopher Andrews, and [[wikipedia:Patrick Laidlaw|Patrick Laidlaw]] are the first to identify the human flu virus by experimenting with {{w|ferret}}s.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Smith |first=W |author2=Andrewes CH |author3=Laidlaw PP |title=A virus obtained from influenza patients |journal=Lancet |year=1933 |volume=2 |pages=66–68 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(00)78541-2 |issue=5732}}</ref><ref>Dobson, Mary. 2007. Disease: The Extraordinary Stories behind History’s Deadliest Killers. London, UK: Quercus.</ref><ref name="The Evolving History of Influenza Viruses and Influenza Vaccines 1" />|| [[wikipedia:United Kingdom|United Kingdom]]
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| 1936 || || Human || Medical development (vaccine) || Soviet scientist A. Smorodintseff conducts the first attempts attempt of a vaccination with a live influenza vaccine that has been passed about 30-times in eggs. Smorodintseff would later report that the modified virus causes only a barely perceptible, slight fever and that subjects are protected against reinfection.<ref name="The Evolving History of Influenza Viruses and Influenza Vaccines 2">{{cite web|title=The Evolving History of Influenza Viruses and Influenza Vaccines 2|url=http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/812621_2|website=medscape.com|accessdate=31 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kuszewski’ |first1=K. |last2=Brydak |first2=L. |title=The epidemiology and history of influenza |url=http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.564.9823&rep=rep1&type=pdf}}</ref> || [[wikipedia:Russia|Russia]]
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| 1942 || {{w|Influenzavirus B}} || Human || Medical development (vaccine) || Bivalent vaccine is produced after the discovery of [[w:Influenzavirus B|influenza B]].<ref name="The Evolving History of Influenza Viruses and Influenza Vaccines 1">{{cite web|title=The Evolving History of Influenza Viruses and Influenza Vaccines 1|url=http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/812621|website=medscape.com|accessdate=31 January 2017}}</ref> ||
