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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: may not + winter season + flu  Related to the article below (Last Update: 5/5/2008)

Many lessons learned in busy first month
MLB.com - May 2, 2008
Let's break it down: Global travel can be depleting: The Red Sox have devoured antibiotics in volume while fighting team-wide flu symptoms in the wake of ...
Australia may avoid deadly flu epidemic
The Age, Australia - Apr 15, 2008
Last year's flu season was the worst since 2003 because of two widely circulating virulent strains of influenza A, H3N2 and H1N1. Children died in Western ...
State, CDC track link in child flu deaths
Boston Globe, United States - Apr 24, 2008
One New Hampshire child died this winter of the flu, but did not have MRSA. While MRSA infections can't be treated with the most common antibiotics, ...
Tis' the season -- for rattlesnake bites (VIDEO)
Abilene Reporter-News, TX - Apr 30, 2008
"If your dog is bitten, this isn't like the flu vaccine," Ellis said. "You don't just want to sit back and see how they do. You're still going to want to ...
Doctors using Internet to track flu
The West Australian, Australia - Apr 29, 2008
?The 2007 influenza season was a particularly severe one,? Dr Dalton said. ?There was concern early in the season that the influenza vaccine may not be as ...

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The face behind a famous poster
Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - May 3, 2008
"She'll be more or less unhonored and unsung during this third war-winter in Gotham. But as a new season looms on the horizon, the young `bud' just ...
A Fine Figure of a Finn
Golden Skate - May 2, 2008
"I had not skated to classical music before and she thought that I would be ready for it." For her exhibition programs this season, Korpi skated to a medley ...
Flu viruses come in waves each year from East and Southeast Asia ...
The Canadian Press - Apr 16, 2008
If they succeed, when people involved in selecting strains for flu vaccine gather in future, they may be armed with information that shows not only which ...
Weekend Buzz: D-Backs tossing out notion '07 was aberration
CBS News, NY - Apr 28, 2008
And to top it off, catcher Jorge Posada's shoulder is really messed up and he may need season-ending surgery. 5. Second base is dangerous territory: Not the ...
Blue Jays: New look, same old rotten bats
Toronto Star,  Canada - Apr 30, 2008
"You've got to try something," Gibbons said prior to the game against the slumping, flu-stricken Sox. "Something as simple as that might work. ...
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Effectiveness of Influenza Vaccine in Health Care Professionals A Randomized Trial -
JA Wilde, JA McMillan, J Serwint, J Butta, MA O' … - JAMA, 1999 - Am Med Assoc
... B in health care professionals and may reduce reported ... influenza vaccine recipients
who did not demonstrate a 4 ... for more than 1 winter season, control vaccines ...

Multiplex reverse transcription-PCR for surveillance of influenza A and B viruses in England and … -
JS Ellis, DM Fleming, MC Zambon - Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 1997 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
... During this season both influenza A H3N2 and H1N1 ... significantly earlier or later
in the winter of 1995 ... This may not be the complete list of references from this ...

… Syndromes and Planned Percutaneous Coronary Interventions The FLU Vaccination Acute Coronary … -
EP Gurfinkel, RL de la Fuente, O Mendiz, B Mautner - Circulation, 2002 - Am Heart Assoc
... against influenza infection in the winter of 2001 ... has been suggested, 23 Koch?s
Principles may not be entirely ... The present study did not address this question ...

Efficacy of Influenza Vaccination in HIV-Infected Persons: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo- … -
SA Tasker, JJ Treanor, WB Paxton, MR Wallace - Annals of Internal Medicine, 1999 - annals.highwire.org
... found that immunization and infection did not affect plasma ... regimens during the study;
this may have masked ... of influenza vaccine (1993-94 winter season) in HIV ...

The Efficacy of Influenza Vaccine in Elderly Persons: A Meta-Analysis and Review of the Literature -
PA Gross, AW Hermogenes, HS Sacks, J Lau, RA … - Annals of Internal Medicine, 1995 - annals.highwire.org
... in the hemagglutinin (antigenic drift), the vaccine may provide partial ... Mortality
was not assessed. ... study of elderly persons during three winter seasons: 1990 ...

Illness Among Schoolchildren During Influenza Season Effect on School Absenteeism, Parental … -
KM Neuzil, C Hohlbein, Y Zhu - Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 2002 - Am Med Assoc
... pected based on the noninfluenza winter season base- line ... visits and antibiotic use
did not increase significantly ... dis- crepancy are unclear, but may relate to ...

Human Metapneumovirus Infections in Young and Elderly Adults -
AR Falsey, D Erdman, LJ Anderson, EE Walsh - The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2003 - UChicago Press
... 44:9, 1152-1158 Online publication date: 1-May-2007. ... pediatric patients during three
consecutive winter-spring seasons ... 2004) Human metapneumovirus: a not so new ...

Epidemiology of influenza-associated encephalitis-encephalopathy in Hokkaido, the northernmost … -
T Togashi, Y Matsuzono, M Narita - Pediatrics International, 2000 - Blackwell Synergy
... brain dysfunction during the current winter season, irrespective of ... the peak of the
influenza epidemic in each season. ... fashion and that it may not be sensitive ...

Efficacy and Safety of the Oral Neuraminidase Inhibitor Oseltamivir in Treating Acute Influenza A … -
JJ Treanor, FG Hayden, PS Vrooman, R Barbarash, R … - JAMA, 2000 - Am Med Assoc
... more rapid return to normal activities, which may provide another ... of influenza B
in the 1997-1998 winter season, only 9 ... of the group as a whole (data not shown ...

Identification of a new human coronavirus -
L van der Hoek, K Pyrc, MF Jebbink, W Vermeulen- … - Nature Medicine, 2004 - micab.umn.edu
... cultured virus, and virus-specific PCR methods may not amplify the ... This was not an
isolated case, as we ... both infants and adults, during the last winter season. ...

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Seven Steps to Prevent Colds and Flu this Winter

 

Winter may not officially arrive this year until Dec. 22, but cold and flu season is already in full swing.

There’s good news, though: A few simple actions can greatly reduce your chances of getting a cold or the flu and help prevent your family, friends and coworkers from becoming sick as well, says Joanne C. Langan, Ph.D., R.N., coordinator of clinical resources at the Saint Louis University School of Nursing and a member of the university’s Pandemic Response Planning Committee.

“These are common-sense steps everyone should take throughout the year,” Langan says, “but it’s especially important now that winter’s here and cold and flu season is under way.”

“It’s all about respecting yourself in order to stay healthy – and respecting others so they can be healthy as well,” Langan adds. “No one wants to get sick or to pass along a cold or the flu to someone else.”

Below are seven steps that Langan says are crucial to staying well this winter and prevent spreading cold or flu germs to others.

No. 1: Get a flu shot. Unquestionably, this is the most important way to avoid getting the flu and to prevent or contain an outbreak of the illness, which kills hundreds of thousands of people around the world each year. Flu shots are particularly important for people at high risk for serious complications from influenza – including young children, the elderly and those with weakened immune systems.

The best time to get vaccinated is October and November – but you get a flu shot in December and January and still be protected. Flu season can last as late as May.

And contrary to popular belief, there’s no chance of getting the flu from a flu shot, says Langan. That’s because the viruses in the shot’s vaccine are dead, not live.

No. 2: Wash your hands often. A study published in a British medical journal earlier this year found that regular hand washing, with soap and water, was more effective than drugs in preventing the spread of respiratory viruses such as the flu. If you can’t wash with soap and water, Langan says, alcohol-based gels and wipes can be used. The gel should be rubbed until it’s dry.

No. 3: Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth. Those are “major points of entry” for all kinds of germs, particularly those that cause colds and the flu, Langan says.

No. 4: Avoid close contact with people who are sick.

No. 5: Practice other good health habits. To keep your immune system as strong as possible, get plenty of sleep, eat nutritious food, drink plenty of water and other fluids and learn how to manage your stress.

No. 6: Cover your nose and mouth. If you’re about to sneeze or cough, put your hand or a handkerchief over your nose and mouth – or sneeze or cough into your sleeve. It may prevent those around you from getting sick, Langan says.

No. 7: If you’re sick – stay home, particularly if you’re running a fever or sneezing or coughing a lot. You’ll help prevent others from catching whatever you have.

For more information on preventing the flu, go to http://www.cdc.gov/flu/toolkit. To learn more about healthy habits and stopping the spread of germs, go to http://www.cdc.gov/germstopper.

 
 
 
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