Community bulletin board (Napa Valley Register)
Flu viruses can remain infectious for about one week at human body temperature, over 30 days at 0 °C (32 °F), and indefinitely at very low temperatures (such as lakes in northeast Siberia). Most influenza strains can be inactivated easily by disinfectants and detergents.
Community bulletin board (Napa Valley Register)
Education Quilted Art at Your Library Fabric art by the Napa Valley Quilters, including traditional and contemporary quilting techniques, is displayed during November at the Napa Main Library, 580 Coombs Street in downtown Napa. The Art in the Library program is a juried competition. Artists submit slides for review in early spring and a winning artist is featured each month. Info about the Art ...
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Officials urge planning for influenza outbreak (Rome News-Tribune)
Tuesday’s Seven Hills Rotary meeting turned out to be a sobering lesson in “What ifs.”Health officials and Emergency Management director Scotty Hancock urged business and community leaders to formulate a disaster preparedness plan in case of a pandemic influenza outbreak.Though not an imminent threat, the possibility of a worldwide pandemic influenza is being monitored by the World Health ...
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
Laboratory test results have today confirmed H5N1 Avian Influenza in turkeys at one of the Dangerous Contact premises. These premises were confirmed as a Dangerous Contact, and culling was completed on 17th November.
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Read this before you get a flu shot (CNN.com)
Nobody wants to get the flu this year. The dreaded, head-pounding, body-aching, feverish, nauseating, cough-fest packs equal parts misery and inconvenience.
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UN Office Uses Space Info To Mitigate Disasters (Scoop.co.nz)
A new United Nations Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) office tasked with utilizing space technologies to respond to all stages of disasters globally has opened in Bonn, Germany.
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Community bulletin board (Napa Valley Register)
Most healthy adults can infect others one day before they begin experiencing symptoms and up to five days after they become sick. That means you can pass on the flu to someone else before you know you are sick, as well as while you are sick. A typical case of the flu can last up to one week.
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