I'm glad you are thinking about ways to protect yourself from the flu (influenza) since the flu season can continue as late as May of each year, and immunization can prevent or lessen the severity of a case of the flu.
He cited matters related to regional financial security and public health security such as the avian flu and influenza pandemics as examples of areas where more dynamism was needed.
The Google Cities flu tracker ranks influenza activity in each metropolis as low, moderate, high, or intense.
The ad urges viewers to become informed about influenza and how to stay well during the flu season without resorting to the influenza vaccine.
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The site monitors search terms for words such as influenza and flu.
Swine influenza, or flu, is a contagious respiratory disease that affects pigs.
"The substantial decrease in the clinical consultation rate for influenza shows that flu activity is declining in Wales, " said Dr Tony Jewell, the chief medical officer for Wales.
Similar to ILINet, Flu Trends produces estimates of Influenza-like Illness.
Tests in mice showed it works against both A and B influenza types and known resistant flu strains and researchers are now doing tests in other animals.
She recommended parents protect their children under the age of 18 with a seasonal influenza vaccine, since seasonal flu kills 50 to 100 children per year, she said.
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It takes about 2 weeks to build up immunity (antibodies) to influenza after you have had the flu shot.
Already, some Southeastern states -- particularly Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida -- have been hit hard by the swine flu virus, also known as 2009 H1N1 influenza, perhaps because schools opened earlier there, she said.
Except for hospitalized patients, others with flu-like symptoms are not being tested to confirm they have swine flu, since "virtually all of the influenza that's circulating right now in the United States is the 2009 H1N1 strain, " Schuchat said.
Though commonly known as "stomach flu, " it is not caused by the influenza virus, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Most of that money will go to the Health and Human Services Department to prepare for an influenza pandemic, such as an avian flu outbreak.
It is commonly known as "stomach flu, " but is not caused by the influenza virus, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
While we take a break from influenza during the North American summer, flu attacks the Southern Hemisphere, and in the tropics, flu rates are relatively stable throughout the year.
In a normal flu season, about 36, 000 Americans die from influenza and related complications.
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Public Health Wales said the rates of flu infection has remained within the normal pattern for seasonal influenza.
This was a second type of influenza: pandemic, rather than seasonal, flu.
Symptoms of swine flu in humans are expected to resemble regular human seasonal influenza symptoms, including fever, lethargy, lack of appetite, and coughing, the CDC said.
Swine flu is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza, according to the CDC.
"This is definitely one of the most lethal influenza viruses we have seen so far, " WHO flu expert Dr Keiji Fukuda said at a news conference in Beijing.
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The process of making influenza vaccines is fundamentally unchanged since Jonas Salk injected the first flu shot in 1943.
Swine flu is a respiratory disease which is caused by a strain of the influenza type A virus known as H1N1.
But antibodies against flu viruses you've encountered in the past can't protect you from new influenza subtypes that are very different immunologically from what you had before.
Efficacy here means that of the sample of people who came to the doctor with a flu-like illness, 62% of those who had been vaccinated did not have influenza.
The group remains quarantined at home, and Health Minister Tony Ryall said 10 students tested positive for influenza A -- the general category of strains that includes the H1N1 swine flu.
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