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Texas and New York City Schools Close Due to Suspected Swine Flu, and California declares a state of emergency. MORE?
A pandemic flu is a particular strain of flu that is spreading across a large area, a continent for instance or even world wide. Season illnesses that occur world wide during the same time aren't considered to be pandemics.
No. The bird flu virus that has infected a few dozen people in Asia and the Middle East is not the same as the one that would ultimately create a human pandemic. Since it's not known what the pandemic flu virus will look like, a vaccine aga...
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Outbreaks follow predictable seasonal patterns; occurs annually, usually in winter, in temperate climates Occurs rarely (three times in 20th century—last in 1968) Usually some immunity built up from previous exposure No previous exposure; l...
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/magazine/issues/fall...
Several pandemics of influenza have occurred in the last century. The biggest pandemic flu was in 1918 when at least 500,000 Americans died and there were an estimated 10 million deaths worldwide. U.S. deaths in previous influenza pandemics...
http://www.bethelsd.org/news/pandemic_flu_a_qa_with_the...
You are more likely to catch it than ordinary flu because it spreads rapidly and very few people will have any immunity to it. Everyone will be at risk. Some groups of people may be more at risk than others. With ordinary flu the groups of ...
http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/diseases/flu/p...
Hell no! They are really building it up higher than what it really is. Just cause it is a nation emergency doesn't necessarily mean it is bad, just that they would rather be safe than sorry. Flu's and such usually can spread fast and easy w...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090429213...
I do not live in the USA, so am not qualified to answer for your situation. However, may I tell you a little from my experiences? I live in the south west of France, in an area of industrial poultry production. There are fields about 2 o...
http://askville.amazon.com/thinks-Pandemic-Flu-Bird-com...
Seasonal flu vaccine campaigns usually focus on the elderly and people of all ages with chronic diseases that can put them at higher risk of potentially dangerous complications, Baker says. Pandemic flu is striking a much younger population...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-08-23-swine-fl...
No. All patients in acute care facilities would be equally subject to ventilator triage guidelines, regardless of their disease category or role in the community.
http://www.health.state.ny.us/diseases/communicable/inf...
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