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Colds And Flu
This health education site explains all you need to know about colds and flu,including prevention, selfcare, specific recommendations for effective non
http://quickcare.org/resp/colds.html

Extractions: Colds are by far the most common illness in the world. In the United States, 90% of the population will have at least one cold per year. The flu is similar, and somtimes has the same symptoms as a cold, but is often much more severe and lasts longer. Cold and flu viruses attack the nose, nasal sinuses, throat and the upper breathing tubes (trachea and bronchi). As they invade the moist skin lining of these structures, they cause runny nose, sinus congestion, sneezing, sore throat and cough . Fever might also occur, usually with the flu. Although it Is difficult to tell the difference between colds and flu (especially in children), the chart on the next page may help distinguish between the two. The classic symptoms of above begin 1-4 days after contact with the virus and usually last 5-7 days, but can linger on. For most healthy people the difference between colds and flu aren't important. For the elderly, very young children, or otherwise susceptible people, the flu can be very serious. These people should always be seen by a doctor if the flu is suspected. Causes Both colds and flu are caused by viruses, and the real difference between them is simply the type of virus that causes the illness.
Wired News: Deadly Scourge Was Common Flu
Scientists unlock the mystery of the 1918 epidemic that claimed up to 40 million lives worldwide. Lab tests show they were victims of ordinary swine flu. Wired News
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,17927,00.html

Extractions: 03:00 AM Feb. 16, 1999 PT WASHINGTON A frozen corpse and preserved samples from victims of the 1918 flu epidemic that killed millions of people worldwide show the virus resembled the common swine flu, scientists reported Monday. Tissue samples from three people who died in the epidemic have provided enough genetic material to allow researchers to sequence, or map, one key gene of the virus, a team from the US Armed Forces Institute of Pathology wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences "The existing strain to which the 1918 sequences are most closely related is A/Sw/Iowa/30, the oldest classical swine-flu strain," the scientific team, led by Ann Reid and Jeffrey Taubenberger, wrote. "The influenza pandemic of 1918 was exceptionally severe, killing 20 to 40 million people worldwide, with unusually high death rates among young, healthy adults," it wrote.
Blast The Flu! - Méchant Grippe
Canadian organization. Information on the need for immunizations to prevent the disease. In English Category Health Conditions and Diseases Viral InfluenzaEnglish, French. English, French /div .
http://www.fightflu.com/
Asian Flu Leads To Record Layoffs | CNET News.com
Job cuts in the computer, electronics, and telecommunications industries are far surpassing last year's figuresby twofold in most casesas the impact of the Asian economic crisis hits, according to a report released today. News.com
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,27192,00.html?st.ne.fd.mdh
1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
Not only was the Spanish flu strikingly virulent, but it displayed an unusual preferencein its choice of victimstending to select young healthy adults over
http://www.ninthday.com/spanish_flu.htm

Extractions: Ninth Day Intro Isaac Starr, 3rd year medical student, University of Pennsylvania, 1918. By the fall of 1918 a strain of influenza seemingly no different from that of previous years suddenly turned so deadly, and engendered such a state of panic and chaos in communities across the globe, that many people believed the world was coming to an end. It struck with amazing speed, often killing its victims within just hours of the first signs of infection. So fast did the 1918 strain overwhelm the body's natural defenses, that the usual cause of death in influenza patients-a secondary infection of lethal pneumonia-oftentimes never had a chance to establish itself. Instead, the virus caused an uncontrollable hemorrhaging that filled the lungs, and patients would drown in their own body fluids. Micrograph of flu on periphery Not only was the Spanish Flu strikingly virulent, but it displayed an unusual preference in its choice of victims-tending to select young healthy adults over those with weakened immune systems, as in the very young, the very old, and the infirm. The normal age distribution for flu mortality was completely reversed, and had the effect of gouging from society's infrastructure the bulk of those responsible for its day to day maintenance. No wonder people thought the social order was breaking down. It very nearly did. But at the close of the First World War, when Spanish Flu appeared, the world was a very different place. Since then, outstanding advances in our knowledge of the germ world have been made, adding dramatically to our repertoire of medical wizardry. Surely what happened back then couldn't happen again.
CNN - China Says No Signs Of Bird Flu - January 5, 1998
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Extractions: Web posted at: 1:18 p.m. EST (1818 GMT) GUANGZHOU, China (CNN) Chinese authorities on Monday maintained that the bird flu virus, which has killed four people in Hong Kong, had not spread to the rest of China, and that new tests on chicken farms in the south had revealed no cases of virus infection. Experts conducted more tests on 1,087 blood samples taken last month from chicken farms and wholesale markets in the southeastern province of Guangdong, the China Daily newspaper quoted Ministry of Agriculture official Chen Guosheng as saying. Chen said there was still no sign of the H5N1 virus, commonly known as bird flu, which triggered the slaughter of more than a million chickens in Hong Kong, which neighbors Guangdong province. Farms and markets in the city of Shenzhen and the Guangdong provincial capital of Guangzhou known in the West as Canton have been given a clean bill of health by animal health authorities.
Flu Center
Who Should Get flu Shots? Anyone who wants to minimize his for the allergy.What Kind of flu Is Expected this Season? The highest probability
http://public.bcm.tmc.edu/pa/flucenter.htm

Extractions: HOUSTON(Sept. 26, 2002)Don't let the 'bug' bite your family this winter. Protect them with flu shots. Although it's not a guarantee you won't get the flu, the vaccination will greatly lower your chances of catching it," said Dr. William Glezen, a professor of molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. The best time to get the shot is from the middle of October to the middle of November, because most people get the flu in the winter. In the Northern Hemisphere, the "bug" traditionally arrives in December. It is a highly contagious viral infection of the nose, throat and lungs, and it is one of the most severe illnesses of the winter. It spreads easily from one person to another primarily when an infected individual coughs or sneezes. A new variant of the influenza B virus, B/Hong Kong/2001, showed up last spring. This virus will likely spread again this winter. Fortunately, Glezen said, it is included in this year's vaccine. This year marks the first time parents are being urged to get babies and toddlers vaccinated because influenza sends its tiniest patients to the hospital as often as it does the elderly. But parents need to be aware that unlike the one yearly shot most people need, the first-ever inoculation for young children requires two doses a month apart. Parents shouldn't delay that visit to their pediatrician.
CNN - New Flu Drug Sounds Too Good To Be True - September 29, 1997
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http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9709/29/nfm.flu.drug/

Extractions: Web posted at: 5:01 p.m. EDT (2101 GMT) From Medical Correspondent Rhonda Rowland SAN FRANCISCO (CNN) A flu epidemic can kill as many as 20,000 Americans a year, while millions of others suffer from symptoms ranging from headaches and fever to muscle aches and coughing. CNN's Rhonda Rowland Reports But an experimental drug may make the misery of the flu a thing of the past. It is code-named GS4104, and it sounds almost too good to be true. Not only does it cut the duration of a typical flu bout in half, but after taking the pill, patients start feeling better within hours. And studies suggest that it may be the first flu medicine that can actually prevent the flu from developing. "This compound has the potential on the health of people, a big impact economically and on the lost days at work, and a big impact on the convenience," says Norbert Bischofberger , a drug researcher at Gilead Sciences . "We won't have to be dealing as much with the flu as we had to." The latest study done by Gilead, the manufacturer of the drug, shows that unlike other flu medications, GS4104 works on both strains of the virus: influenza A and influenza B.
CNN Health: Cold & Flu Report
flu TRACKER Week Ending April 22, 2000 flu Map color key MORE. RELATED STORIESScientists who track flu fear new, powerful strains January 17, 2000.
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/cold.flu/
CNN - Birds Slaughtered In Bid To Contain Mystery Flu - Dec. 29, 1997
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Extractions: Web posted at: 7:25 a.m. EST (1225 GMT) HONG KONG, China (CNN) Poultry workers and government teams in Hong Kong began the wholesale slaughter of birds Monday, the first step in a plan to contain the mysterious "bird flu" virus that has crossed over to humans and caused four recent deaths. "Today is a field day," a spokeswoman for the Agriculture and Fisheries Department (AFD) told Reuters. "We are doing more than a million things at the same time." The government plans to kill, disinfect and bury every chicken in Hong Kong some 1.3 million of them. An unknown number of ducks, geese, quail, pigeons, doves, and other birds that have been kept close to chickens will also be destroyed. Government workers counted the birds, gathered the carcasses in plastic bags, and sprinkled them with lime before tossing the bags into sealed dumpsters. The birds will be taken to government-run landfills for disposal. Drastic measures in Hong Kong to deal with bird flu 2.3MB/25 sec./320x240
CNN.com - Flu Outbreak Forces School Closings - Feb. 7, 2003
A flu outbreak has forced schools in Kentucky and neighboring statesto shut down in recent weeks. flu outbreak forces school closings.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/parenting/02/07/flu.schools.ap/

Extractions: The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video Newswatch E-Mail Services CNN To Go SEARCH Web CNN.com Kentucky school nurse Barbara Ecton has been seeing flu symptoms in more students such as Jeremy Arvin. Story Tools RELATED Gallery: The flu: Prevention and symptoms LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (AP) A flu outbreak has forced schools in Kentucky and neighboring states to shut down in recent weeks. Thousands of children have fallen ill. Health officials attribute the outbreak in part to a new type of influenza virus spreading around the country. At least two districts in Kentucky and four in Tennessee have closed, and schools in Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, Iowa and Mississippi also have reported a rash of sick students. An elementary school in Bloomington, Indiana, reported last week that 40 percent of its 217 students were absent. Last week in Georgia, nearly a third of the pupils in Glynn County's 18 schools were out with flu-like illnesses. Last week "it was hitting our middle school and one of our elementaries the hardest, and then this week it hits the high school and our other elementary school," said Gerald Fulk, of Mason County Schools in northeastern Kentucky. In western Kentucky, schools in Ballard County were canceled the rest of the week after attendance dipped below 75 percent.
Business Software Chill Not Fatal | CNET News.com
The Asian flu is more of a sniffle for SAP and the rest of the business software makers. News.com
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Wired News: Don't Blame Asia: The Trouble's At Home
Software and hardware sales are in a slump due to saturated domestic markets, not any Asian flu. But be prepared, the Asian market debacle will make itself felt in the United States too. Wired News
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,9150,00.html

Extractions: 05:06 AM Dec. 15, 1997 PT Asia may be a convenient scapegoat for less-than-stellar performance, but the US tech industry is actually facing its biggest problems at home. Executives at Oracle and other companies started crying wolf only weeks after financial markets slid out from under most of Asia, but the real problems lie in over-supplied domestic markets. The fallout from Asia will be felt sure enough - but that'll be in the months to come. "At the highest level, the Asian situation has given companies like Oracle an excuse," said Forrester analyst Don DePalma. "They can say deals didn't happen and contracts were pushed off, but that's less reality than scapegoating." It seems there is a huge gap between the expectations created by the early success of the Internet and what mainstream firms can really do, or so says a recent Forrester report. Making matters worse, that chasm is being widened by the multitudes of suppliers hawking three or four new product releases every year - users can't keep pace with integration requirements. And that's not Asia's fault. "Our report concluded there is a hiccup in demand anyway," DePalma said. "Every segment has far more vendors in it than the market can reasonably expect to support."
CNN - Study: Enzyme Helps Make Flu Virus A Killer- August 17, 1998
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http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9808/17/flu.rt/

Extractions: Web posted at: 5:43 p.m. EDT (1743 GMT) WASHINGTON (Reuters) An extra enzyme helps make some strains of the flu virus especially deadly, researchers reported Monday. They said knowing about the enzyme might help doctors find people infected with the most dangerous strains, and might provide a target for drugs. Yoshihiro Kawaoka and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin said the most dangerous strain of influenza A makes use of an extra protein that helps it infect cells throughout the body. The influenza A virus has two surface proteins hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA). To infect cells, the HA protein has to be cut into two pieces by enzymes known as proteases. The proteases that can do this are normally common in the lungs and throat but not elsewhere which is why flu usually is just a respiratory illness.
I GOT FLU - Know About Flu Symptoms
If you have come to this site it is probably because it is flu season.Did you know care provider. Link to Antiviral flu Treatment. Roche
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Extractions: If you have come to this site it is probably because it is flu season. Did you know that right now you could be at an increased risk of getting a flu infection? Read on to learn more about how you can hit back if you become sick with the flu. This information is intended to help answer some basic questions about the flu. However, this information cannot take the place of a discussion between you and your health care professional. If you have any questions after reading this information, you should check with your health care provider. "THIS SITE INTENDED FOR U.S. AUDIENCES ONLY"
Welcome To FluNet
The World Health Organization links national influenza centres and collaborating centres for global influenza surveillance. Up to date information.
http://oms2.b3e.jussieu.fr/flunet/

Extractions: (INSERM Unit 444) , Paris, France. Comments or questions about FluNet can be sent to whoinfluenza@who.ch Operational or technical questions : C. Viboud WHO - OMS website : http://www.who.int Designed by ESSANIA design The World Health Organization links national influenza centres and collaborating centres for global influenza surveillance through FluNet. Financial support was provided by the Government of Japan and the Department of International Development of the United Kingdom.
BBC Health - Features - Flu
An article by Dr. Rob Hicks about vaccines and treatment.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/features/flu.shtml

Extractions: Don't get knocked out by the Flu Over winter last year thousands of people were struck down with the "flu". Many needed treatment in hospital and although most people recovered, many died. We are fortunate to have a safe and effective vaccination that the NHS provides for free and recommends for those people at greatest risk of the harm the flu virus can cause. However, what good is a vaccination if people don't have it? Having it every year The flu virus changes slightly every year. Scientists work hard to predict which types will be around and develop a different vaccine to fight the flu each year. This is why it's important that those people advised to have the vaccination make sure that they have it every year. These people are advised to have a "flu" vaccination 1. Everyone over the age of sixty-five
Common Cold And Flu Symptoms
Health resource center for the common cold with flu symptoms, flu advisories, coldand flu weather maps, state flu reports, and preventative measures for the
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CNN - Hong Kong Poultry Market Shut Amid Fears Of Bird Flu - Dec. 15, 1997
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http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9712/15/hong.kong.flu/

Extractions: Web posted at: 1:05 p.m. EST (1805 GMT) HONG KONG (CNN) One of Hong Kong's largest wholesale poultry markets was closed Monday following the death of two people from a virus that previously was found only in birds and poultry. Stacks of cages lay empty and the usual squawking of thousands of fowl was replaced by the sound of workers hosing down the Cheung Sha Wan poultry market, which sells more than one-third of the 80,000 chickens imported into Hong Kong daily from China. Government officials said the market will not reopen until Thursday, when a massive cleanup is completed. The virus's known fatalities, a 3-year-old and an adult, were among seven people this year either confirmed or suspected to have contracted the influenza H5N1 strain. With chicken sales down sharply at local retail markets since the flu virus surfaced, vendors at the market asked for the cleanup to restore public confidence in poultry. Officials said no infected chickens have been found at the market. Factoid: A new strain of flu can be devastating if it spreads rapidly. An outbreak of so-called Hong Kong flu in 1968 caused more than 40,000 deaths around the world. And a global flu epidemic in 1918 and 1919 claimed the lives of more than 20 million people.
National Flu Report
US National flu Report. Influenza activity estimates, as reported by statehealth departments. Weekly reports State flu Report. Select
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Extractions: Home Health Flu Reports U.S. National Flu Report Influenza activity estimates, as reported by state health departments. Weekly reports are published about 10-12 days after the "week ending" date, due to the time required to compile national data. Legend No report No activity Sporadic Regional Widespread Source: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Previous Weekly Reports February 22, 2003 February 15, 2003 February 8, 2003 February 1, 2003 January 25, 2003 January 18, 2003 January 11, 2003 January 4, 2003 December 28, 2002 December 21, 2002 December 14, 2002 December 7, 2002 November 30, 2002 November 23, 2002 November 16, 2002 November 9, 2002 State Flu Report Select a state Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Back to Cold and Flu Features In the Spotlight Recommended Health Links Check the Current Allergy Level in Your Area

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