We tried it against flu A viruses H1N1, H3N2 as well as flu B viruses.

That's the sound of genetic mutations of the avian flu becoming a deadly human flu.

Think of cancer, of bird flu, swine flu, SARS.

Just look at pandemics swine flu, bird flu, H1N1.

I've got a touch of the flu.

Bird flu.

As variable as flu is, HIV makes flu look like the Rock of Gibraltar.

So let's take a look at the flu virus.

Swine Flu for Grownups

I caught the flu.

And the Avian Flu is also not a good idea.

And that most people who die of regular flu which in regular flu years is about 360,000 people worldwide, most of them senior citizens and they die not of the flu but because the flu gives an assault to their immune system.

So this, swine flu pink.

Who Pays for Bird Flu?

Special event on Avian flu

Pandemic bird flu early detection, early response. It is a litany.

The swine flu virus, at the moment, is a symmetrical object.

No longer must flu have to kill half a million people a year.

We really could think of flu, then, as just a bad cold.

I was vaccinated against the flu.

So a nice example of this came from last year and swine flu.

When swine flu first appeared, the initial news caused a lot of overreaction.

Luckily, this year's flu was relatively mild.

Well, you could develop flu like symptoms.

And now comes the Spanish flu also.

So that's why every year you can catch a slightly different strain of flu.

SB I think flu is different. I think what happened with flu is we've got a bunch I just showed some of this a bunch of really cool and useful technologies that are ready to go now.

Seth Berkley HIV and flu the vaccine strategy

So today, we get our flu vaccines from ...

Laurie Garrett on lessons from the 1918 flu

This is not your normal garden variety flu.

Special event on the theme of Avian flu

And actually, about a year or so ago, there was this promulgation of the idea of Google Flu Trends, with respect to the flu, where by looking at people's searching behavior today, we could know where the flu what the status of the epidemic was today, what's the prevalence of the epidemic today.

I'm very sorry if you have the flu, I know it's horrible, but we're not going to spend billions of dollars trying to reduce the duration of your flu symptoms by half a day.

Then a number of years went by, and there were a lot of rumors about bird flu.

And what we know is that it's as if the bees have caught a flu.

Please note it's a museum specimen, but there's no chance you'll get the avian flu.

The red dots are going to be cases of the flu, and the yellow dots are going to be friends of the people with the flu.

We want to pretend that Mexico has the flu.

It was before the avian flu had reached Europe.

We all caught flu, and so did the teacher.

People with flu should stay home, and not go to work or school for a week.

In 1918, we had a flu epidemic in the United States that killed 20 million people.

So instead of a hidden pandemic of bird flu, we find it and immediately contain it.

Our big concern at the moment is a virus called H5N1 flu some of you call it bird flu which first emerged in southern China, in the mid 1990s, but we didn't know about it until 1997.