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[pandemicmap.com] Too Soon to Get a Flu Shot? – About - Pandemic Map .com - Pandemic ...: com: Ear, Nose and Throat Disorders The 2009 H1N1 pandemic taught us that while the flu season traditionally starts in October influenza is an unpredictable illness and can occur in the spring and summer months. If you are one of the thousands of Americans who have become disenchanted …

[World Health News] World Health Organization Assessing Bird Flu Threat | World Health ...: 3 rating is based on no or limited human-to-human transmission of the disease, Epstein said, adding health officials worldwide are studying whether human-to-human transmission is occurring. People living on the same farms in some areas of the world have come down with the disease, but it’s uncertain whether they picked up the illness from each other or from fowl on those same farms, Epstein explained.

[Tips For Healthy Lifestyle] Health Center Staff In Lead Role Preparing Their Campuses for ...: when the pandemic strikes is all the more clear when you consider that, unlike seasonal flu, H5N1 has an increased risk for the typical student demographic of young, healthy adults. The startlingly high mortality rate of up to 60 percent is partly due to a protein, also found in the strain of virus responsible for the 1918 pandemic flu outbreak, which causes a response in a healthy immune system known as a “cytokine storm”, often leading to respiratory failure and death.

[Articles 20VN] Articles 20VN | Avian Influenza - Bird Flu FAQ | Avian Influenza | Bird ...: In the human body, this avian flu virus then undergoes an antigenic shift, combines with genetic material of a human strain of influenza virus and creates an entirely new strain of virus against which humans have little or no immunity. These genetic reassortments may also take place is the body of a third species (susceptible to both avian and human viruses) like the pig, where an avian influenza A virus and human influenza virus mix their genetic information and produce a new virus which might be able to infect humans.

[Genetics and Health] Flu virus has 'coat' which melts in the summer and makes it less ...: Unlike coryza, influenza expresses symptoms more severely, and usually lasts two weeks until one recovers who has the flu. Influenza, however, poses a danger to some with compromised immune systems, such as the chronically ill, so the recommendation is greater in such populations, along with women who may be pregnant during the flu season, residents of nursing homes or chronic care facilities.

[Citizens for Legitimate Government] Flu 'Oddities' - Citizens for Legitimate Government: Flu victim exhumed after 85 years 30 Jan 2004 Scientists are preparing to exhume the body of a woman who died of flu 85 years ago to find out how the virus killed millions across Europe. Phyllis Burn died aged 20 in 1918, a victim of the 20th Century's worst flu epidemic, which killed more than 50 million people.

[Kingskerswell Taxis] Will Avian Flu become Pandemic - by: Experts are saying that Avian Flu or Bird Flu could become Pandemic at some time in the future, and it could affect the human race, The World Health Organization has recognized that there could be a problem, Governments have been urged to update all their plans for counteracting any .The people most at risk would normally of course be the weak the elderly and the very young, but this kind of virus would be unpredictable, so it could affect healthy people just as much.

[H1N1 (Swine Flu) - Pandemic Influenza News] H1N1(Swine Flu): Pandemic Flu Myths- Man-Made, Planted Weapon and ...: It seems that every publication you pick up has stories about H1N1- swine flu.  Even Popular Mechanics!  A September issue of Popular Mechanics had a great article on the myths surrounding the pandemic”¦approaching the topic just like a mechanical/engineering problem, it offered a straightforward look at five of the more common myths you read on the Internet.  Today’s blog also includes  a real unusual (weird/scary/disturbing) story - no myth - about a pet owner who infected their pet ferret with H1N1”¦really, I am not kidding! Who could make that up?!?!?

[My Blog] Health Center Staff Take Lead Role In Preparing Their Campuses For ...: could be the difference in life or death for their students.” The importance of having a campus-wide plan that is ready - not just in the preliminary stages - when the pandemic strikes is all the more clear when you consider that, unlike seasonal flu, H5N1 has an increased risk for the typical student demographic of young, healthy adults. The startlingly high mortality rate of up to 60 percent is partly due to a protein, also found in the strain of virus responsible for the 1918 pandemic flu outbreak, which causes a response in a healthy immune system known as a “cytokine storm”, often leading to respiratory failure and death.

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[HBR Editors' Blog] Preparing for a Pandemic: Jeffrey Staples in HBR's 2006 special report on avian flu, "it would become the single greatest threat to business continuity and could remain so for up to 18 months. though it didn't raise the Pandemic Threat Level, its gauge of the chance the flu could become a global epidemic.

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[Health News Blog] Health News Blog : World Health Organization still assessing bird flu ...: But the lack of available information on bird migration pathwaysand the influenzas that hit avian populations is, among otherthings, making it tough for public health experts to battle thedisease. "We would be so far ahead of the game right now if weknew more about the actual natural history and what thewild-type viruses actually do in these waterfowl populations orbird populations in general,'' David Stallknecht, a Bird Fluspecialist at the University of Georgia's college of veterinarymedicine in Athens, told the Canadian Press.

[Life Science news presented by The Scientist] Journals speed up flu studies - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life ...: Campion noted that the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) prepared NEJM for the latest epidemic. This time around, the journal could respond even quicker, though, because its updated electronic review system streamlined and accelerated the publication pipeline.

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