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Influenza- Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

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  Influenza is commonly known as flu, it is an infectious disease of birds that can cause by RNA viruses. It is a contagious respiratory illness that is caused by influenza virus. Actually it is a viral infection that affects throat, nose, bronchi and in some cases it also affects lungs. Influenza [...]

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Scientists Warn About Future Flu Strains Nursing Times

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Scientists warn about future flu strainsNursing TimesGovernments should start vaccinations against a lethal strain of the influenza virus circulating in birds and pigs, The Independent has reported. The news is based on an article written by US vaccine researchers, who said that an old flu strain known ...Official says H1N1 now just part of seasonal [...]

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Influenza, Volume 7 (Perspectives in Medical Virology)

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Since the influenza virus was first isolated in the laboratory some 70 years ago, the disease has been the subject of intense study, and our knowledge has escalated as the newer techniques of medicine and science have made further advances possible. At the present time, our information of the disease and the virus that causes [...]

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Reported Human Cases of Bird Flu or H5N1 Influenza

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Avian influenza is an infection caused due to avian (bird) influenza (flu) viruses. These influenza viruses occur naturally among all birds. Wild birds worldwide carry the viruses in their intestines but usually do not get sick from them. However, avian influenza is very contagious among birds and can make some domesticated birds including chickens, [...]

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Swine Flu Information

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Swine Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza virus that regularly causes outbreaks of influenza in pigs. The virus currently spreading among people is now generally referred to as swine flu. Swine flu viruses are usually of H1N1 sub-type. The swine flu that has spread to humans is [...]

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Hightlight: Influenza Virus Gaining Power in Pigs?

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Hightlight: Influenza virus gaining power in pigs? The June 18 issue of Science reports that by monitoring the swine at a Hong Kong slaughterhouse, researchers have found that the pandemic H1N1 influenza virus from 2009 has been reorganizing its genes in pigs for the past year and a half. Read more on PhysOrg Tags: slaughterhouse, [...]

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Tamiflu an Effective Treatment for Swine Flu

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Tamiflu is an oral antiviral drug that has been approved by the US FDA for the treatment and prevention of the swine flu virus. The new strain of the virus is resistant to most medicines and a probable cure in the form of a vaccine is yet to be developed. People who are hit by [...]

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Influenza ? Information on Influenza

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Influenza (the flu) is a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses. It can cause mild to severe illness, and at times can lead to death. The best way to prevent the flu is by getting a flu vaccination each year. Every year in the United States, on average 5% to 20% of the population [...]

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Fever of War: The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army During

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The influenza epidemic of 1918 killed more people in one year than the Great War killed in four, sickening at least one quarter of the world's population. In Fever of War, Carol R. Byerly uncovers the startling impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic on the American army, its medical officers, and their profession, a story [...]

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Influenza Virus Explained - How Humans Catch Flu

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This is a 2 minute animated video about influenza and how humans get the flu. It takes you on the journey of an influenza virus, how it is contracted, attacks, and ultimately departs from the cell of an infected person. Read more about our range of rapid tests for diagnosing respiratory infections such as influenza [...]

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Bird Flu's Path From Poultry to People CBC.ca

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CBC.ca Bird flu's path from poultry to peopleCBC.caBird flu, or avian influenza, is an infectious disease that in most cases affects only birds. But a subtype of the virus called H5N1 can migrate to humans and is sometimes fatal. H5N1 is one of several hundred subtypes of the Type A influenza virus and ...Hong Kong [...]

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Prevention of Spread of Swine Flu

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Prevention of Spread of Swine Flu Dr.Kedar Karki   In Mexico in April this year, a never-before heard strain of swine flu emerge, turning ill more than a thousand Mexicans and causing the death of 68. Swine flu has spread to other parts of the world such as the US and New Zealand when affected [...]

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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic In

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At the height of WWI, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in [...]

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~the Influenza Virus~

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How humans catch the flu Tags: influenza virus, flu ~the influenza, Influenza, Flu, Infectious disease, Conditions and Diseases, Virus

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Influenza- Symptoms and Treatment

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IDENTIFYING INFLUENZA Influenza is a common contagious disease with flu-like symptoms. Influenza is caused by a sphere or filament-shaped virus. The most problematic part of these viruses is that they keep on changing. Such mutated virus strains can adversely affect a person even though that person had immunity to another strain of the influenza virus. [...]

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Tamiflu Can Impact and Control the Influenza Virus Before It Undergoes a Dramatic Variation

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What is Influenza? Influenza is an infection caused by a virus of the respiratory tract. Influenza is a very contagious infection and can easily break into a pandemic. You may catch this infection from an infected person who is travelling with you or is working with you or from an infected family member. Influenza virus [...]

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