It's flu season.

Here we come. And that was the influenza.

I had a flu shot.

I had a flu shot.

I was vaccinated against the flu.

So a nice example of this came from last year and swine flu.

I don't need a flu shot.

The nurse gave us flu shots.

Doctors advertise the flu shot every year.

The influenza viruses established in humans for several decades originated from bird viruses.

Kits for rapid diagnosis of influenza infection already exist.

Some scientists today predict a repeat of an avian flu pandemic.

So today, we get our flu vaccines from ...

There's that dip there for the 1918 flu.

They can all get a flu shot free of charge.

The influenza virus and HIV use this strategy.

Influenza vaccine supplies should be increased so that more individuals are inoculated.

A campaign is underway in Sakhalin Region to immunize the population from flu.

Later on, officials admitted that there was an H1N1 epidemic starting in Ukraine.

It is a highly virulent influenza virus such as this that is devastating chickens in parts of Asia.

CA And that's the same with universal flu vaccine, the same kind of thing?

A significant part of Dr. Komarovskyy's post was devoted to medical aspects of the flu.

It's important to get immunized at the beginning of the winter with an up to date vaccine against the flu virus.

But AIDS jumped from monkeys and several types of flu jumped from swine.

A well understood example is that of influenza viruses in wild fowl, where the virus causes infections that are hard to detect.

According to the World Health Organization, as many as half a million people die each year from influenza.

PRINCETON No one knows how the swine flu (H1N1) pandemic will evolve.

NEW YORK The World Health Organization has now officially declared the H1N1 flu virus to be a global pandemic.

Yes, the world faces its first influenza pandemic in more than 40 years.

But among the vast number of flu and other cases, finding these cases will be difficult.

For example, viruses responsible for influenza pandemics are adapted to both humans and birds.

So right now, the world can produce about 350 million doses of flu vaccine for the three strains, and we can up that to about 1.2 billion doses if we want to target a single variant like swine flu.

Similar failings have exacerbated the consequences of today's bird origin influenza epidemic in Vietnam, Thailand, and elsewhere.

SARS is difficult to diagnose definitively, and during flu season, it will be much easier to miss a case of SARS.

The anti flu drugs Tamiflu and Relenza are extremely expensive and in short supply.

We don't have vaccines or rapid tests for SARS, but we do have them for flu.

Here's a slide looking at the genetic variation of flu and comparing that to HIV, a much wilder target.

Here's an example A company I'm engaged with has found a specific piece of the H spike of flu that sparks the immune system.

But even a mild influenza virus kills a lot of people, especially those with other medical problems.

Now it had a name, which made it scarier than the regular flu, even though it was more deadly.

We are facing many crises food, energy, recession, and pandemic flu occurring all at once.

That influenza virus has also jumped from the chickens to those who look after them, killing some people.

A recent New York Times editorial, for example, decried wealthy countries me first attitude toward a possible H5N1 pandemic, because t he best hope of stopping a pandemic, or at least buying time to respond, is to improve surveillance and health practices in East Africa and Asia, where one would probably begin.

Worse, Indonesia is no longer providing the WHO with timely notification of bird flu outbreaks or human cases.

Even health care organizations are getting in on the action, using a community s purchasing patterns to predict, say, an influenza outbreak.