For example, a flu strain is a certain biological form of the influenza or flu virus.

We tried it against flu A viruses H1N1, H3N2 as well as flu B viruses.

H7N9 is a bird flu strain of the species Influenza virus A (avian influenza virus or bird flu virus).

The nurse gave Tom a flu shot.

As variable as flu is, HIV makes flu look like the Rock of Gibraltar.

Swine Flu for Grownups

And that most people who die of regular flu which in regular flu years is about 360,000 people worldwide, most of them senior citizens and they die not of the flu but because the flu gives an assault to their immune system.

Who Pays for Bird Flu?

Special event on Avian flu

Some scientists today predict a repeat of an avian flu pandemic.

I was vaccinated against the flu.

The H1N1 form of swine flu is one of the descendants of the strain that caused the 1918 flu pandemic.

When a new flu infects one human being, all are at risk.

Still in Lebanon, QifaNabki brushes off swine flu as a smaller concern, noting

H10N7 is a subtype of the species Influenza A virus (sometimes called bird flu virus).

Laurie Garrett on lessons from the 1918 flu

Seth Berkley HIV and flu the vaccine strategy

So today, we get our flu vaccines from ...

Special event on the theme of Avian flu

A bird adapted strain of H5N1, called HPAI A(H5N1) for highly pathogenic avian influenza virus of type A of subtype H5N1, is the highly pathogenic causative agent of H5N1 flu, commonly known as avian influenza ( bird flu ).

It was before the avian flu had reached Europe.

SB I think flu is different. I think what happened with flu is we've got a bunch I just showed some of this a bunch of really cool and useful technologies that are ready to go now.

And actually, about a year or so ago, there was this promulgation of the idea of Google Flu Trends, with respect to the flu, where by looking at people's searching behavior today, we could know where the flu what the status of the epidemic was today, what's the prevalence of the epidemic today.

I'm very sorry if you have the flu, I know it's horrible, but we're not going to spend billions of dollars trying to reduce the duration of your flu symptoms by half a day.

1918 Spanish flu pandemic When the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic reached Toronto, Earhart was engaged in arduous nursing duties including night shifts at the Spadina Military Hospital.

Only time will tell. Swine flu, as bird flu before it, may turn out to be a non issue. If it does not, however, it good that people are starting to think about it now.

And we've looked at everything more AIDS cases, flu, etc.

Sami is also in the hospital with flu like symptoms.

The flu also revealed some of Mexico s other fundamental flaws.

Mexico s current quandary is the flu, but it faces more important challenges than a mutating microbe.

Elizabeth Murchison Fighting a contagious cancer

Our big concern at the moment is a virus called H5N1 flu some of you call it bird flu which first emerged in southern China, in the mid 1990s, but we didn't know about it until 1997.

It's been working to help control pandemic flu, SARS for example.

But when the United States caught the financial flu, others followed.

Here's a slide looking at the genetic variation of flu and comparing that to HIV, a much wilder target.

Bird flu. I stand here as a representative of all terrible things this might be the worst.

Fighting poverty is a non negotiable objective.

So right now, the world can produce about 350 million doses of flu vaccine for the three strains, and we can up that to about 1.2 billion doses if we want to target a single variant like swine flu.

Mexico s bad health is a symptom of problems that run deeper and are more widespread than swine flu.

They are fighting for a fundamentally different future.

Fighting the

Children fighting

NEW YORK The World Health Organization has now officially declared the H1N1 flu virus to be a global pandemic.

The spectre of avian flu threatens parts of Asia and Europe and the disease could become a global pandemic.

The World Bank insisted that corruption be seen as a cancer, and that fighting it be made synonymous with fighting poverty.