We exchanged letters every Christmas until he passed away in the flu epidemic of 1918.
The suggestion to clean your smartphone may potentially be an important consideration during this current flu epidemic.
Global air travel is down 7.6% (the swine flu epidemic hasn't helped), and hotels in the U.S. and Europe are running well less than three-quarters full.
The information can be used not just to analyze how a financial disaster is happening in real time, but also other natural disasters or a flu epidemic.
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The United States stepped up preparations for a possible swine flu epidemic, and Canada confirmed its first cases on Sunday as researchers worked to determine how contagious the virus could be.
The flu epidemic didn't spare Hollywood as actor Tommy Lee Jones reportedly missed out of picking up his statue for outstanding male actor in a supporting role for "Lincoln" because he was sick.
Much of the running commentary on Twitter is a reaction to news events, so when a flu epidemic becomes a national news story, the number of people talking about it spikes, regardless of their own health status.
Masahiro Kawai, an official at the Asian Development Bank, this week urged the region to prepare for a slump in the dollar, the probability of which he compared to that of a global bird-flu epidemic: it is far from a certainty but would have a tremendous impact if it happened.
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In 2010 during the H1N1 flu epidemic, the FDA warned consumers about a potentially harmful counterfeit anti-flu drug that could be a killer in two respects: It lacked any of the flu-preventing medicine it purported to be while it did contain an antibiotic similar to penicillin that can be lethal to certain people.
Spanish flu was an epidemic that peaked in 1918, and which may have claimed as many as 100m lives.
Last week 7.3% of US deaths were caused by pneumonia and the flu, just above epidemic threshold, said the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As luck would have it, though, the new advice agrees more closely with the recommendations of the CDC's advisory committee on immunisation practices about the best approach to the epidemic of N1H1 swine flu that is now circulating.
The deaths were not caused by an epidemic or the new H7N9 bird flu strain, and nearby chemical factories were being investigated, they added.
Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Nearly 3, 900 people, including about 540 children, are believed to have died from the H1N1 flu in the first six months of the epidemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
The final great epidemic of the 20th Century was Russian flu, which hit Britain in 1977.
Scientists believe the H1N1 virus epidemic is no more dangerous than seasonal flu, and schools should act accordingly, Sebelius said.
It also enables authorities to monitor outbreaks of bird flu for the dangerous mutations and so nip a potential epidemic in the bud.
An annual flu shot is a must, and she got one for whooping cough too when an epidemic of pertussis erupted a few years ago.
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