I asked them these are all fluologists and specialists in influenza and I asked them the questions you'd like to ask them.

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

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

Yes, the world faces its first influenza pandemic in more than 40 years.

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

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

The Government has developed a Pandemic Influenza (Pan Flu) Response Plan and an Airport Contingency Plan for Smallpox and has also contracted the development of an overall Territorial Smallpox Emergency Response Plan, which will complement the Pan Flu Plan and be the template for other extreme disease related health emergencies.

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

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

State media reported that Nasser's absence from the public view at that time was a result of influenza.

The 1918 flu pandemic started to take its toll in Croatia in July 1918, with peaks of the disease occurring in October and November.

It is even more ludicrous to extend the sovereignty notion to viruses that, like flu, can be carried across international borders by migratory birds.

But he placed the likelihood of one such event above all others at close to 100 percent, and that is a severe flu pandemic.

The three leading contagious diseases in Bosnia and Herzegovina are respiratory disease (influenza), contagious child diseases and entherocholitis.

Even worse, the most common influenza influenza A also infects animals that live in close proximity to humans, and they can recombine in those particular animals.

Another breakthrough came in 1931, when the American pathologist Ernest William Goodpasture grew influenza and several other viruses in fertilized chickens' eggs.

Intravenous bisphosphonates can give fever and flu like symptoms after the first infusion, which is thought to occur because of their potential to activate human γδ T cells.

But even a mild influenza virus kills a lot of people, especially those with other medical problems.

The flu epidemic, which probably began in the southern state of Veracruz, is yet another sign that all is not well in Mexico.

Public opinion seems disenchanted with a democracy incapable of offering tangible solutions to problems, the flu crisis being the most recent example.

The most frequent diseases in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2001 were influenza, enterocolitis, varicellae, scabies and angina streptococci, which made up 90 per cent of the total number of registered infectious diseases.

As of April 9, a total of 24 cases have been laboratory confirmed with influenza A(H7N9) virus in China, including seven deaths, 14 severe cases and three mild cases.

If you can use patterns in Google searches to track flu outbreaks and predict a movie s commercial prospects, can you also use it to forecast market movements or even revolutions?

We know from influenza that a new epidemic can suddenly appear just as an older one is fading, if a new form of the virus appears, or if some environmental factor increases the contagion rate.

Seth Berkley explains how smart advances in vaccine design, production and distribution are bringing us closer than ever to eliminating a host of global threats from AIDS to malaria to flu pandemics.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1, also known as A(H5N1) or simply H5N1, is a subtype of the influenza A virus which can cause illness in humans and many other animal species.

In 1918, a flu pandemic caused by a bird virus killed some 40 million people around the world, far more than the recently concluded world war.

Saskatchewan Health has been collaborating with First Nations communities, Health Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada, and Regional Health Authorities on emergency management planning for pandemic influenza and other disasters and emergency events.

It calls upon all countries to implement the revised International Health Regulations, expresses concern about a possible pandemic of human influenza arising from avian influenza and welcomes relevant responses by the United Nations and other appropriate international and national measures.

Will it retreat during the northern hemisphere s summer and return in the fall? Will it stay mild or turn more severe?

In this age of globalization, failure to make viral samples freely available risks allowing the emergence of a new strain of influenza that could go unnoticed until it is capable of exacting the sort of toll taken by the pandemic that killed tens of millions in 1918.