Sentences with phrase «seasonal flu now»

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The nightly news reports about the brutal seasonal flu, now widespread across our great land, haven't jumpstarted efforts to build (and fund) such a plan.

And not only have I already seen a few patients trickle through with the seasonal flu, but I am also suffering from one right now as I sit down to write and record this episode (cough, cough).

Until now, it was widely believed that in order for seasonal flu to escape the immunity individuals acquire from previous infections or vaccinations, it would take at least four amino acid substitutions.

Amantadine and rimantadine are primarily used to treat seasonal flu in the United States and Japan, for instance, in nursing homes, says Arnold Monto, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor — but their use is bound to decline now, he adds.

She is now testing the approach against one of the most common viral killers: seasonal flu.

Meanwhile, in the southern hemisphere, in the midst of its winter flu season, swine H1N1 virus seems to be replacing the seasonal flu viruses that circulated till now — classic pandemic behaviour.

Although respirator use made sense at the beginning of the swine flu pandemic, it now appears that H1N1 behaves similarly to seasonal influenza, Dr. Rupp says, so «it does nt make much sense to be using different precautions for seasonal flu than we use for H1N1.»

Vaccines are now available that give combined protection against H1N1 and the seasonal flu.

I've been fighting some seasonal flu, on and off now for almost 2 weeks and my little daughter has been sick (possibly caught like 3 different viruses or something) for almost 3 weeks and the crazy weather ain't helping us to get better... One day it's slushy - rainy day with «warm» temperatures, next day, it's snowing again, very windy and cold outside.