Word: influenza
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...suspect that environmental triggers--particularly at critical moments during the brain's development before birth--play a role. That's why the results of a study published last week in the Archives of General Psychiatry are so intriguing. For the first time, researchers have direct evidence that exposure to influenza in utero is tied to a greater likelihood that an individual will someday develop schizophrenia...
That doesn't mean that the link between influenza and schizophrenia is airtight. "It's really important to duplicate these results," says Dr. Alan Brown, a psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York City, who led the study. But the new findings fit a pattern that has been emerging since researchers noticed a spike in cases of schizophrenia among people born in Denmark in 1957 during a major flu epidemic...
Some of the concern arises from diseases that pose just as big a threat here at home. And that brings us back to influenza, which can be found all over the world in all seasons, and can be deadly for older travelers, in particular. Nurse Patricia Davenport, a travel medicine specialist at Harris Methodist HEB Hospital in Bedford, Texas, recommends that older travelers make sure they get a flu shot every year...
...INDICTED. HIDEAKI ASADA, 41, president of Asada Nosan, a Japanese poultry producer, on charges of covering up a February outbreak of avian influenza at a company farm; in Kyoto. Prosecutors say Asada failed to warn authorities about the deaths of thousands of birds, and the farm allegedly sent some of the surviving chickens to processing plants. Asada faces up to a year in prison. His father, who was Asada Nosan's chairman, and his mother committed suicide after the outbreak was discovered...
...Center, a high-tech war room that allows the CDC to link to and share information with scientists from around the world. "We are redefining CDC as the nation's health-protection agency," says Gerberding. That means being ready for a terrorist attack with smallpox, preparing for the next influenza pandemic and battling the growing obesity epidemic among America's young all at the same time. It also means being able to think globally. During the SARS crisis, for example, the CDC became part of a pioneering virtual lab in which researchers from different continents collaborated via computer to detect...