Word: influenzae
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...after watching months of hysterical TV coverage of H1N1, or swine flu, you think you already know everything you need to know, you are probably wrong. Pandemic influenza is notoriously complex - and it changes all the time. The best defense is wisdom. But because of the way our brains are wired, we tend to overestimate how well we understand the risks. Check your own IQ (influenza quotient) with our nifty Pandemic Pop Quiz. #mediaContainer {width:525px; border:1px solid #ccc; border-width:0px 0px 1px 0px ; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px; margin:15px 0; overflow:hidden;} You will need...
...school time for much of the U.S. this week, as millions of students bustled into classrooms to start the new year. But compared with school years past, this academic season has been decidedly more fraught, since it marks what could be the full-scale return of the H1N1 influenza virus...
Since August 26, 49 people have gone to UHS with influenza-like illnesses, the vast majority of whom were undergraduates, Rosenthal said...
...symptoms are called influenza-like illnesses because Massachusetts is no longer testing for the H1N1 flu versus the seasonal flu, but the recent cases are almost certainly H1N1...
...rather than increase. This trend is partly the result of a drop in traffic fatalities - perhaps because rising unemployment means fewer people commute to work or because people are trying to save on gas - but also of less easily explained drops in factors such as cardiovascular and liver disease, influenza and pneumonia. In one groundbreaking study in 2000 on the impact of joblessness, for example, Christopher Ruhm, an economist at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, examined statewide mortality fluctuations in the U.S. between 1972 and 1991 and found that a 1% rise in a state's unemployment rate...