Treating Flu Symptoms Sensibly - What To Do If You Think You Have Been Exposed To Flu With the severity of the flu intensifying and deadly strains emerging, it is becoming more essential to know how to treat symptoms and what to do in the case of flu exposure Luckily, many of the traditional treatments may still be applicable to the more dangerous strains of bird flu, which is a cause for worldwide concern If you believe you have been exposed to the flu, you should pay close ...

Tamiflu- An Effectual Treatment For Avian Influenza Tamiflu- An Effectual Treatment for Avian Influenza Bird Flu, also known as avian influenza is a common infection of birds; there are actually 144 different strands of the avian flu virus virus, with varying intensity in symptoms and contagiousness However, one strand which has been a matter of deep concern in particular is H5N1; it has not only been transmitted to humans, but caused a mortality rate of over 50% The virus can easily transmit to humans through ...

Avian Flu Virus The current Asian outbreak of avian flu, also known as bird flu, is associated with the influenza A strain H5N1 flu virus Although not the same as the Spanish flu virus that claimed 20 million to 50 million lives worldwide in the 1918 outbreak, the current avian flu strain does share many characteristics with the 1918 strain Both scientists and governments around the world are studying this threat very closely and some have warned of the potential for another pandemic outbreak Initial studies have shown ...

Bird Flu True To Form? A Pandemic Scenario Lee tried to stifle a sneeze but couldn't Invisible to the naked eye, a cloud of almost five thousand virus-filled droplets launched into the air at some 150 km/ hour or roughly 100 mph Some passengers in the wide-body Airbus frowned The Hong Kong to London flight was long and no one wanted to catch a cold Lee planned to fill every waking moment of his stay in London A concert at the Millennium Dome, dinners at some ...

Homeopathy And Flu Epidemics The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351 Known as "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster Influenza constitutes the most widespread and ...

Key Facts About Bird Flu Bird flu was first identified in the early 1900Â’s and has since spread worldwide Also known as avian influenza, this virus has caused considerable concern due to the mutation of a particular strain of the disease Although this virus previously only infected birds and other types of animals, namely pigs, since 1997, it has also been known to infect humans The strain of the disease to cause so much concern is H5N1 These are simply numbers ...

Build A Strong Immune System And Win The War On Disease Just as our country is currently engaged in a war against covert terrorism, your immune system is similarly waging a constant war against the hidden enemies within your bodyThis war started before you were born and it will continue until you die Although it's a war that always ends in defeat, there's a lot you can do to markedly postpone that ultimate defeat and to maintain a state of ...

Tamiflu resistance reported in Australia The first case of resistance to the antiviral Tamiflu (oseltamivir) from an influenza infection has been reported in Australia. A 38-year West Australian man, who had previously received a kidney transplant, developed complications from the virus despite treatment with the antiviral, doctors treating him reported this week in the Medical Journal of Australia. "After a 10-day course of oral oseltamivir for pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza infection, a renal transplant recipient developed rapid-onset severe primary viral pneumonia due to ...

Tamiflu effectiveness questioned The effectiveness of Tamiflu has been cast into doubt after a new investigation suggested there was not enough evidence that the popular antiviral prevented complications from influenza in healthy people. The joint investigation between the British Medical Journal and UK’s Channel 4 News concluded that while Tamiflu (oseltamivir) and other neuraminidase inhibitors were effective at reducing symptoms of the flu, their role in reducing complications such as pneumonia was unclear. The research team, led by Professor Chris Del Mar from ...