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unusual facts about influenza-like illness



2009 flu pandemic in New Zealand

On 25 April 2009 ten students from Rangitoto College, a secondary school in North Shore City, Auckland, exhibited influenza symptoms on returning from a three week language trip to Mexico.

2009 flu pandemic in the Philippines by region

After suspecting 92 influenza cases, the Department of Health on June 14 declared community outbreak in barangay Hilera, Jaen, Nueva Ecija.

Around May 28–29, 2009, around 29 students were mysteriously felt influenza-like illnesses at the same grade level in Hilera Elementary School, barangay Hilera (Jaen, Nueva Ecija).

2009–10 flu pandemic in Norway

On July 2, a Norwegian woman from Bergen was confirmed with the swine influenza, this person had recently been traveling to the United States.

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals

Peramivir is an intravenous (i.v.) antiviral drug being developed for the treatment of influenza.

Brevig Mission, Alaska

In the late 1990s, a team of scientists led by Johan Hultin exhumed the body of an Inuit woman who had been buried in the permafrost in a gravesite near Brevig Mission in an attempt to recover RNA of the 1918 influenza virus (Spanish flu) that killed her.

Cammie Fraser

Fraser played in the club's run to the quarter-final, in which they lost to Újpesti Dózsa 5–3 on aggregate, though he missed the first leg of the quarter-final due to influenza apparently brought on by a vaccination.

Canine influenza

In June 2009, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) approved the first canine influenza vaccine.

Charles DeWitt Anderson

He died there, reportedly of the "grippe", in November 1901, and was buried in Old Cahill Cemetery in Galveston.

Clinical surveillance

Many large institutions, such as the WHO and the CDC, have created databases and modern computer systems (public health informatics) that can track and monitor emerging outbreaks of illnesses such as influenza, SARS, HIV, and even bioterrorism, such as the 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States.

Codral

Codral is a brand name of cold and flu medication manufactured by Johnson & Johnson and sold primarily in Australia & New Zealand.

Ecological study

John Cannell and associates hypothesized that the seasonality of influenza was largely driven by seasonal variations in solar UVB doses and calcidiol levels.

Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children

FIMRC operates a clinic in Las Delicias (near San Salvador) that seeks to treat gastroenteritis, influenza, malaria, measles, pneumonia, and bronchitis, each of which is caused or complicated by the malnutrition, poor sanitation, and poor housing conditions that the children of Las Delicias experience.

Gandangara people

The Gundungara people were apparently badly affected by an influenza epidemic of 1846/47, which was particularly severe.

Haemophilus influenzae

H. influenzae was first described in 1892 by Richard Pfeiffer during an influenza pandemic.

Influenza A virus subtype H2N3

Blood plasma levels of Interleukin 6 (IL-6), Interleukin 8, monocyte chemotactic protein-1 and Interferon-gamma were significantly increased in swine H2N3 compared to human H2N2 infected animals supporting the previously published notion of increased IL-6 levels being a potential marker for severe influenza infections.

International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza

President George W. Bush announced the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza in his remarks to the High-Level Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on September 14, 2005, in New York.

Isaac D'Israeli

He died of influenza at age 81, at his home, Bradenham House, in Buckinghamshire, less than a year after the death of his wife in the spring of 1847.

Midkine

In the Japanese film "L: Change the World", Midkine is used as a major plot element, as it is used in a vaccine to treat the ebola virus combined with influenza, from spreading.

Mohammed Noor

While playing for the Saudi national team on 14 June 2006, Noor managed to deliver a powerful performance while also having come down with a bad case of the flu.

Nabarro

David Nabarro (born 1949), Senior UN System Coordinator for Avian and Human Influenza

Otto Carpell

In October 1918, he died of a cause variously reported as heart failure or pneumonia following an outbreak of Spanish influenza while serving at Payne Field in West Point, Mississippi.

Past medical history

Immunizations: take a careful record of all immunizations, including tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, polio, Hepatitis B, measles, mumps, rubella, Haemophilus influenzae type B, influenza.

PLOS Medicine

In April 2012, PLOS Medicine published an article by three researchers who were involved in ongoing updates of a Cochrane Collaboration review of neuraminidase inhibitors for treating influenza, describing their experience of trying to gain access to clinical study reports for the antiviral Tamiflu (oseltamivir) from the drug's manufacturer Roche.

Protective sequestration

The term “protective sequestration” was coined by Howard Markel and his colleagues, in their paper that described the successes and failures of several communities in the United States in their attempts to shield themselves from the 1918-1920 so-called “Spanish Influenza” pandemic during the second wave of that pandemic (September-December 1918).

Qazi Khaliluddin

He died on 25 Muharram 1337 AH at Bhopal at the age of 42 years 10 months and 21 days because of Influenza and is buried at the 'Family Graveyard', Jinsi, Jahangirbad, Bhopal.

Recombinant DNA Vaccine

What Paoletti and his colleague, Virologist Dennis Panicali, set out to do was to alter the DNA of cowpox virus by inserting a gene from another virus (namely herpes, hepatitis B or influenza).

Steve Brozak

StormBio is developing therapeutics to minimize the mortality and morbidity resulting from Highly Pathogenic Influenza infections, such as H5N1 and H1N1 influenza strains.

Steve Welch

In 2001, he founded a pharmaceutical company, Mitos, that made flu vaccines more efficient.

The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History

The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague In History is a book by John M. Barry.

Tristram Potter Coffin

Coming to Rhode Island after his father died of influenza in 1927, he was educated at the Providence Country Day School, Moses Brown School (1939), and then Haverford College (1943).

West View Park

Before the start of the 1919 season, West View Park lost its founder; in February 1919, T. M. Harton had been stricken with influenza returning from a business meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio.


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