Influenza | It's Flu Season Somewhere – Here's The Scoop

The United States CDC gives the following statistics . Yearly 5 to 20% of the population get the flu, 200000 cases are hospitalized due to severe flu complications and 36000 cases prove to be fatal. Annual healthcare costs approaches US$10 billion … Several antiviral pharmacological agents have been approved for the treatment of the flu. Because of the seasonal changes in the types and strains of influenza . Click here to view rest of article from original site …

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Health News Update « GardenSERF's Plot

States are also cutting direct funding of substance abuse services, this is adding to the closure of those treatment centers as well at this time. If services must be cut (and I understand this because of budgets), would it also be … 24 voted to expand seasonal flu immunization to everyone except babies younger than 6 months. Previous vaccine recommendations applied to about 85% of the population, but did not include healthy people age 19 to 49 unless they had close …

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How is the H1N1 vaccine different than other flu strand vaccines …

A new seasonal flu comes out everyyear so i dont really get the added controversy of this swine flu shot. It might just be because its in the news more, and theres a section of the population who think that vaccines are evil, …

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Global warming: Shut the corrupt IPCC down and prosecute key b…/b …

Swine Flu Information and Pandemic Status. Idemc.com – Canada. « Cases of recovery from the bswine flu/b in Egypt more than 16 b…/b · New Inhaled Drug Protects from bFlu/b in Single Dose ». Global warming: Shut the corrupt IPCC down and prosecute key b…/b. Truth be told: the population explosion did not occur as a straight line growth function; normal seasonal flu binfection/b and mortality greatly outweighed the avian and bswine flu/b “pandemics. …

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CDC advisory panel says virtually everyone should get a seasonal …

CDC advisory panel says virtually everyone should get a seasonal flu shotLos Angeles Times (blog)The CDC has been slowly broadening the recommendations for flu shots over the last few years to the point where about 85% of the population …

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Swine flu hits blacks harder (The Daily Progress)

RICHMOND — About 30 percent of the H1N1 swine flu-associated deaths in Virginia occurred in African-Americans, the state health commissioner said Friday.African-Americans make up about 20 percent of the population in the state.

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In Va., 36 deaths related to swine flu (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

About 30 percent of the H1N1 swine flu-associated deaths in Virginia occurred in African-Americans, the state health commissioner said yesterday. African-Americans make up about 20 percent of the population in the state. In Virginia, there were 36 confirmed H1N1-associated deaths—33 adults and three children. “What we learned from the CDC, who studied 10 different states, including Virginia, was …

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H1N1 Virus : H1N1 squelches seasonal flu in Minn. – Minneapolis …

H1N1 squelches seasonal flu in Minn. Minneapolis Star Tribune If not, it may be because many in the population already are immune to the H1N1 virus, making the spread more difficult. According to the Centers for … …

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Swine Flu Virus Information, The Precautions You Can Take And The …

Seasonal flu and swine flu are different as explained below Ordinary flu happens annually, mainly in the winter. Approximately 10 to 15 percent of the population are effected and the majority will recover without treatment in 1 to 2 …

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Does the swine flu vaccine help to prevent the seasonal flu, at all?

Everything Swine Flu. The latest news and information about the Swine Flu scare … it doesn’t prevent the seasonal flu… all it does is help you not to get the swine flu… but after you get the shot… u will get like a lil bug… then the shot will start working… goofy94101 January 30, 2010 at 2:12 am. the swine flue shot hasn’t been tested at all. so the population is the little Gennie pigs. i Woudn’t get it. either is my family. my friend got it a couple days later she …

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