Fayette reports 1st flu of season (Lexington Herald-Leader)
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.
Fayette reports 1st flu of season (Lexington Herald-Leader)
The state's first confirmed case of the flu has been diagnosed in Fayette County, health officials said yesterday. The strain of flu was identified as influenza A. This year's flu shots protect against this strain, said Dr. Melinda Rowe, commissioner of health for the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department. Rowe said it was "good to have this information now. We know it's here. We know your ...
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The Politics of Flu Shots (The New York Sun)
Alex Tabarrok of Marginal Revolution (marginalrevolution.com) stirred up a debate in the blogosphere by asking who really benefits when he gets a flu shot. "People who have the flu spread the virus so getting a flu shot not only reduces the probability that I will get the flu it reduces the probability that you will get the flu," he writes. "In the language of economics the flu shot creates an ...
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Most flu shots contain mercury, but few know it (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
A record 130 million Americans are expected to get a flu shot this season in hopes of ducking the nasty virus, but as the...
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Health news in brief (Onalaska Community Life)
Here are a selection of brief health news items from this week's paper edition, and possibly a few news briefs that didn't make it in the paper.
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THE PANDEMIC VACCINE PUZZLE A seven-part series on the chances for immunizing the world against pandemic flu (CIDRAP)
Editor's note: This article was originally published in CIDRAP News as a seven-part series running from October 25 through November 2, 2007. It investigates the prospects for development of vaccines to head off the threat of an influenza pandemic posed by the H5N1 avian influenza virus.
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Diabetes 'revolution' cuts both ways (CentralOhio.com)
Diabetes expert John Buse recalls looking into his office's waiting room in the early 1990s and seeing it filled with people suffering the long-term complications of the disease. They would be blind, have legs missing from emergency amputations or be on kidney dialysis.
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Antivirals can lower flu deaths in elderly: study (CTV.ca)
Antiviral drugs can significantly cut the risk of death for older adults hospitalized with severe cases of influenza, a new study from Toronto researchers suggests.
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Wellness programs play bigger role in benefit plans (Central New York Business Journal)
: SYRACUSE — At the height of enrollment season for health-benefit plans, more employers are turning to wellness programs to help slow down the rising tide of health-insurance premium costs, which are expected to increase by double digits again in 2008.
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Antivirals reduce risk of death in older patients hospitalized with flu: study (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
TORONTO - Antiviral drugs can significantly cut the risk of death for older adults hospitalized with severe cases of influenza, even if the therapy is started outside the optimal treatment window, a new study from Toronto researchers suggests.
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General News (Clarion News)
TURKEY AND HAM DINNER: 5-7 p.m. , St. Michael Hall, Fryburg. Adults: $7; children: $3; take outs available.
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Fayette reports 1st flu of season (Lexington Herald-Leader)
The symptoms of human influenza were clearly described by Hippocrates roughly 2400 years ago. Since then, the virus has caused numerous pandemics. Historical data on influenza are difficult to interpret, because the symptoms can be similar to those of other diseases, such as diphtheria, pneumonic plague, typhoid fever, dengue, or typhus. The first convincing record of an influenza pandemic was of an outbreak in 1580, which began in Asia and spread to Europe via Africa. In Rome over 8,000 people were killed, and several Spanish cities were almost wiped out. Pandemics continued sporadically throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, with the pandemic of 1830–1833 being particularly widespread; it infected approximately a quarter of the people exposed.
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