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).

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.

Who Pays for Bird Flu?

Special event on Avian flu

The nurse gave Tom a flu shot.

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.

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.

The vast majority of avian flu outbreaks in the past four years, in both humans and poultry, have occurred in Indonesia.

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

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.

At least 53 types of H5N1 bird flu viruses have appeared in chickens and people there, according to the World Health Organization.

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.

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

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

World leaders have met to prohibit incitement to terrorism, pledge money to support democracy and discuss the threat of HIV AIDS, malaria and bird flu.

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.

And TED has flown Ron here from Ottawa, where GPHIN is located, because not only did GPHIN find SARS early, but you may have seen last week that Iran announced that they had bird flu in Iran, but GPHIN found the bird flu in Iran not February 14 but last September.

Here's the selectivity index numbers against pox, you saw 10s and 20s now against flu viruses, compared to the ribavirin controls, we have an extraordinarily high activity.

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.

This worked well for most pathogens, somewhat well for crafty bugs like flu, but not at all for HIV, for which humans have no natural immunity.

LG For a long time, researchers in emerging diseases were kind of dismissive of the pandemic flu threat on the grounds that back in 1918 they didn't have antibiotics.

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.