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The etiological cause of influenza, the Orthomyxoviridae family of viruses, was first discovered in pigs by Richard Schope in 1931. This discovery was shortly followed by the isolation of the virus from humans by a group headed by Patrick Laidlaw at the Medical Research Council of the United Kingdom in 1933. However, it was not until Wendell Stanley first crystallized tobacco mosaic virus in 1935 that the non-cellular nature of viruses was appreciated.
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Flu disaster! ‘It’s not if, it’s when’ A Canadian influenza researcher says he has no doubts that a pandemic flu is coming that will sweep across the world.
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Commentary: Preparing for pandemic flu (Federal Times)
The annual flu season is upon us. Health clinics, doctors’ offices and hospitals have begun administering vaccines to protect against the debilitating virus.
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Second Outbreak Of Bird Flu In Suffolk, UK (Medical News Today)
Another outbreak of bird flu is suspected at a second farm in Suffolk, UK. The birds at Grove farm in Botesdale were scheduled to be culled following the confirmed discovery of the deadly H5N1 virus at nearby Redgrave Park farm on Tuesday. [click link for full article]
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Home Local News Flu disaster! ‘It’s not if, it’s when’ Flu disaster! ‘It’s not if, it’s when’
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Cleland talks on flu epidemic at county Historical Society dinner (The Bradford Era)
SMETHPORT — The 1918 flu epidemic that hit Kane “is a story about remarkable civic engagement, public leadership, good judgment and individual courage,” according to McKean County Judge John Cleland, who addressed the annual fall dinner of the McKean County Historical Society Tuesday at the United Christian Church in East Smethport.
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5 Minute Guide: Bird flu (Channel 4)
What happened? Bird flu was thought to only infect birds until the first human cases came to light in 1997 when the H5N1 strain infected 18 people in Hong Kong, killing six. All the territory's poultry - over one million birds - were culled, but the virus was not eradicated.
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Health officials warn of flu pandemic (NWAnews.com)
FAYETTEVILLE — There is 100 percent certainty that there will be another flu pandemic, according to Rick Johnson of the Washington County Health Department. (Benton County Daily Record)
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One piece of mail you need to read (Daily Herald)
While your eyes may glaze over when you sort through your mail, there's a letter coming from the Lake County Health Department next week that you won't want to ignore -- because it could save your life.
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The Spanish Influenza outbreak was the worst pandemic in recorded history, one which coincided with the war...and the dawn of the age of modern medicine...and it claimed the lives of local military men at an ohio military facility before they ever reached a battlefield.
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News Index (Prince George Citizen Online)
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 18301833 being particularly widespread; it infected approximately a quarter of the people exposed.
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