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

One is quasi active, like the flu example I gave, where we get some people to nominate their friends and then passively monitor their friends do they have the flu, or not? and then get warning.

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

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.

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.

Swine Flu for Grownups

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

I was vaccinated against the flu.

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

Who Pays for Bird Flu?

Special event on Avian flu

The nurse gave Tom a flu shot.

Laurie Garrett on lessons from the 1918 flu

Seth Berkley HIV and flu the vaccine strategy

Special event on the theme of Avian flu

It was before the avian flu had reached Europe.

On Wednesday, I learned from Laurie Garrett that I'm definitely going to get the bird flu, and I wouldn't be at all worried about that if we never had any contact with Asia.

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.

Sami is also in the hospital with flu like symptoms.

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

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

We have, at the Institute, ongoing funding now from NIH in a program with Novartis to try and use these new synthetic DNA tools to perhaps make the flu vaccine that you might get next year.

Audience member One of the things I've heard is that the real death cause when you get a flu is the associated pneumonia, and that a pneumonia vaccine may offer you 50 percent better chance of survival.

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

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.

You know, my partners at Kleiner and I were compulsive networkers, and so when we see a big problem or an opportunity like avian flu or personalized medicine, we just get together the smartest people we know.

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

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

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.

It appears that not only the flu virus is getting the Moroccan authorities unnerved.

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

Images of the earth being wiped out by flood or bird flu 64 percent.

From 1918 through 1920, the Spanish flu killed 20 to 100 million people worldwide.

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.

But AIDS jumped from monkeys and several types of flu jumped from swine.

(In 1918, avian flu killed more people than died in World War I).

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

The deadly dozen diseases include avian flu, cholera, Ebola, Lyme disease, tuberculosis, and yellow fever.

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

Many references to bird flu and H5N1 in the popular media refer to this strain.

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.

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.

Flu spreads more slowly if we all do our share, but it still spreads.

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 ).