Flu shot flu prevention is essential to good health this year
If you want to be able to enjoy this holiday season you are probably going to want to start looking into flu shot flu prevention. It is only with flu shot flu prevention that you can have at least some semblance of surety that you will not catch the flu this year. Of course, there are no guarantees that come along with any flu shot flu prevention but getting this shot will lower your chances of catching the flu enormously. Many people, millions actually, are deathly afraid of needles, much more afraid of needles than they are of catching the flu. For these people there is another great solution to the traditional flu shot flu prevention that can be taken advantage of. This is the flu shot flu prevention that is not really a shot but rather a nasal spray. This flu shot flu prevention nasal spray is great for everyone really but especially those who just cannot bring themselves to have a needle stuck in their arm for any reason whatsoever. Learning about and making use of flu shot flu prevention is so important to the entirety of our lives but very few realize it. Look at it this [...]
SF Opening School-Based Health Clinic
SF Opening School-Based Health Clinic Things like an earache or the flu can keep kids out of school for days, but for students at Hawthorne, they no longer have to. Read more on KELO Sioux Falls
Why Bird Flu is Seen as a Potential Health Risk to Humans
The Avian Flu, also known as the Asian Bird Flu or Influenza A (H5N1), is a zoological viral strain that has crossed the species barrier and is now threatening further mutation and a subsequent world pandemic. Influenza A strains infect only avian and mammal species while influenza B and C strains infect only humans. Most human influenza strains encounter higher levels of immunity among the human population and are less virulent because they have been around for longer periods and world populations have developed necessary immunity. Conversely, Influenza A (H5N1), after undergoing an antigenic shift (crossing the species barrier), presents an entirely new threat because the human population has no previous immunity or resistance to this flu. Strains that have mutated in this way, and become transmittable between humans, have been the cause of every previous flu epidemic or pandemic for the last 300 years. Researchers suggest that a if global pandemic of Influenza A (H5N1) mimicked the pandemic of 1918-1919, the death toll could reach between 150 and 300 million people. Influenza A (H5N1) was discovered in 1996 thru an outbreak in the domestic poultry industry in Hong Kong. During 2003 and 2004 over 100 million birds died of [...]
Indiana health officials: flu season over, for now
H1N1 hasn’t gone away A year ago a new virus burst upon the scene and quickly reached pandemic proportions. Almost as quickly, Kansas had its first case of what was initially called swine flu, when a Dickinson County man who had visited Mexico fell ill. Read more on The Pratt Tribune Indiana health officials: flu season over, for now INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — State health officials have declared Indiana’s flu season officially over following swine flu outbreaks that killed 39 Indiana residents. While the flu season is over for now, State Health Commissioner Dr. Gregory Larkin says Hoosiers should still get vaccinated because the H1N1 flu virus hasn’t caused a third-wave illness yet and it could still rebound. Since June 2009 … Read more on WHAS TV11 Louisville
Swine flu clinic Saturday at health department
Broome County Swine Flu Poll The Broome County Health Department is conducting a poll on swine flu. Read more on News Channel 34 Binghamton Swine flu clinic Saturday at health department Swine flu clinic Saturday at health department The Cambridge-Guernsey County Health Department will host an H1N1 (swine flu) vaccine clinic from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 17 at the health department, 326 Highland Ave. in Cambridge. The clinic is f Read more on The Daily Jeffersonian
Swine flu season not over, U.S. health officials warn
H1N1 flu resurfaces in the Southeast Officials investigate the trend in Georgia and warn that swine flu is still a threat. Read more on USA Today Swine flu season not over, U.S. health officials warn While swine flu has waned across much of the United States, the southeast is reporting an increase in cases of the H1N1 virus, U.S. health officials said on Monday. Read more on Reuters via Yahoo! News