Tips on surviving the cold and flu season (Moorpark Acorn)
Whichever one you get, you need to get a new vaccine every year. Why? Because the flu virus changes every year and the vaccine is specially created to fight the viruses that are going to be a problem that year.
Tips on surviving the cold and flu season (Moorpark Acorn)
Cold and flu season is rapidly approaching, and consumers will have a wide array of over-the-counter medications to treat their symptoms. With many products treating multiple ailments- from runny nose to fever- it's important to choose the right one.
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Cold and Flu Symptoms (WebMD)
Information on the symptoms related to the common cold and the flu.
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Cold and flu talk: Wash your hands of these misconceptions (The Argus Leader)
Joleen Thompson learned a tough lesson seven years ago. She got the flu, and so did her two young children - all at the same time. Thompson missed more than a week of work and could only go in half-days a week after that. It took awhile to snap back, says Thompson, early childhood director for Youth Enrichment Services.
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Cold raises bird-flu fears (The Nation)
With the arrival of winter, the Public Health Ministry is worried about the possible outbreak of bird flu.
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Flu vaccine in plentiful supply (Jefferson County Journal)
Flu shots are available, if you want them. And, the government hopes that many people do. Jefferson County Health Department officials say that influenza vaccines are in good supply in 2007, as opposed to some recent years when supplies were precious commodities.
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Cold War (New London Day)
With the loss of over-the-counter cold medicines, parents are having to battle their children's viruses with old-fashioned methods. and that makes pediatricians happy.
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Health: Why cold is not to be sniffed at (Sunday Life)
IF there's one topic apart from the weather that preoccupies the British during the winter it's the common cold. Small wonder, because on average we spend three years of our lives suffering from colds, and there will be around 120 million cases this year alone.
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Understanding Common Cold Symptoms (WebMD)
Understanding the signs and symptoms of a common cold can help you get the right treatment.
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Manflu exists! It's official (icWales)
A NEW study has finally proven what every woman has known for years – those aches, pains and sniffles that their partner insists is flu is likely to be just a common cold.
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WIBW - News (WIBW-TV Topeka)
ATLANTA (AP) -- A mutated version of a common cold virus has caused 10 deaths in the last 18 months, U.S. health officials said Thursday. Adenoviruses usually cause respiratory infections that aren't considered lethal.
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Tips on surviving the cold and flu season (Moorpark Acorn)
The first significant step towards preventing influenza was the development in 1944 of a killed-virus vaccine for influenza by Thomas Francis, Jr.. This built on work by Frank Macfarlane Burnet, who showed that the virus lost virulence when it was cultured in fertilized hen's eggs. Application of this observation by Francis allowed his group of researchers at the University of Michigan to develop the first flu vaccine, with support from the U.S. Army. The Army was deeply involved in this research due to its experience of influenza in World War I, when thousands of troops were killed by the virus in a matter of months.
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