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Two die in China from bird flu strain not previously seen in humans: Xinhua
• Flu • • Infections • Mar 31 13
Two people in Shanghai, one of China’s largest cities, died this month after contracting a strain of avian influenza that had never been passed…
Pain reliever shows anti-viral activity against flu
• Flu • • Respiratory Problems • Mar 21 13
The over-the-counter anti-inflammatory drug naproxen may also exhibit antiviral activity against influenza A virus, according to a team of French scientists. The finding, the…
Predicting hotspots for future flu outbreaks
• Flu • • Public Health • Mar 14 13
This year’s unusually long and rocky flu season would be nothing compared to the pandemic that could occur if bird flu became highly contagious…
Flu vaccine less helpful for elderly than usual this year
• Flu • • Immunology • Feb 24 13
It turns out this year’s flu shot is doing a startlingly dismal job of protecting older people, the most vulnerable age group.
The vaccine…
Flu shot in senior citizens just 9% effective against toughest strain
• Flu • • Public Health • Feb 22 13
This year’s flu shot is doing a startlingly poor job of protecting senior citizens from the harshest strain this season, proving just 9% effective,…
Influenza study: Meet virus’ new enemy
• Flu • • Infections • Feb 22 13
Simon Fraser University virologist Masahiro Niikura and his doctoral student Nicole Bance are among an international group of scientists that has discovered a new…
FDA warns of flu protection claims by supplement sellers
• Flu • • Public Health • Feb 17 13
U.S. health regulators have sent letters to nine Internet distributors of dietary supplements warning them against making false claims about their products’ ability to…
More than 40 die from flu in state, and it isn’t over
• Flu • Feb 16 13
More than 40 Washington residents - including 19 in King County - have died in confirmed cases of influenza this season, according to data…
How Effective Is the Flu Shot?
• Flu • Feb 05 13
My patients often ask me how good the flu shot is. Sometimes they just tell me. “It’s only 62% effective, Doc.” That’s true, as…
Flu in U.S. still widespread, but starting to ease, CDC says
• Children's Health • • Flu • Jan 22 13
Flu remains widespread in the United States and 29 children have died of complications from it, but there are signs the epidemic is easing,…
Flu-conomics: The next pandemic could trigger global recession
• Flu • • Public Health • Jan 22 13
A high body count is not the only meaningful number attached to a pandemic. The potential cost of a global outbreak of the flu…
Flu Outbreak in California
• Flu • • Public Health • Jan 20 13
For weeks now we’ve been talking about the flu in other parts of the country, but now, the seasonal flu is finally hitting California.
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Flu season hard on kids, elderly – and it’s still not over
• Children's Health • • Flu • Jan 18 13
Nine more children have died in the past week due to flu-associated illnesses, according to federal health officials – bringing the total number of…
Flu vaccine not linked to fetal death
• Drug Abuse • • Flu • Jan 17 13
Getting the flu vaccine while pregnant does not increase the odds that the fetus will die in the womb, according to a new study…
New York governor declares public health emergency to combat flu
• Flu • • Public Health • Jan 13 13
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a public health emergency on Saturday, giving pharmacists permission to administer flu vaccinations to more people as officials…
Flu sweeping across region, nation
• Flu • Jan 10 13
The flu is sweeping across the nation earlier than normal this year, and the North Shore is not immune.
Health officials nationally are warning…
Back to school means back to flu
• Children's Health • • Flu • Jan 06 13
Parents taking their children back to school Monday should be prepared for their kids to bring home something extra: the flu.
The influenza season…
Two Chinese women die from H1N1 flu in Beijing: state media
• Flu • • Public Health • Jan 06 13
Two Chinese women have died from the H1N1 flu strain in Beijing in the past 10 days, Chinese state media said on Sunday, the…
Flu activity at highest level in a decade
• Flu • • Public Health • Dec 26 12
State and county health officials said Friday that flu activity across North Carolina is at the highest levels recorded in the past decade.
Twelve…
FDA approves Roche’s Tamiflu for infants with new flu symptoms
• Children's Health • • Drug News • • Flu • Dec 22 12
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday expanded the use of Tamiflu, the flu drug from Roche, to children as young as two…
CDC warns of early start to the flu season
• Flu • Dec 10 12
The flu is arriving early this year, like an unwanted guest popping in for the holiday. And it figures to make you just about…
Flu season starts out early, deadly
• Flu • Dec 04 12
The flu season is off to an early and deadly start in Wisconsin, with 26 hospitalizations and four flu-related deaths reported here already, according…
Flu could be cured forever as vaccine might give life-long protection
• Flu • Nov 26 12
A new flu vaccine being developed in Germany may be able to prevent the flu permanently through developing new cures more rapidly.
Researchers at…
Study tentatively links flu in pregnancy and autism
• Children's Health • • Flu • • Pregnancy • Nov 12 12
Kids whose mothers had the flu while pregnant were slightly more likely to be diagnosed with “infantile autism” before age three in a new…
The Cost Of Getting The Flu
• Flu • Oct 12 12
That coughing and wheezing you hear from the next office is a sign that it’s flu season once again. That means it’s time to…