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

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

You get swine flu in Mexico, it's a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later.

One is quasi active, like the flu example I gave, where we get some people to nominate their friends and then passively monitor their friends do they have the flu, or not? and then get warning.

So this would be a technique whereby we could get more than a month and a half warning about a flu epidemic in a particular population.

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.

9. Don t neglect the teachable moment. In the developing world, swine flu (so far) is much less serious than many endemic health threats, and the main risk communication goal should be to help people get through their adjustment reaction, take precautions that are feasible, and refocus on other priorities. But in the developed world, swine flu has two long lasting lessons to teach (1) Flu is a bigger deal than many people imagine.

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.

Audience member One of the things I've heard is that the real death cause when you get a flu is the associated pneumonia, and that a pneumonia vaccine may offer you 50 percent better chance of survival.

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.

We have, at the Institute, ongoing funding now from NIH in a program with Novartis to try and use these new synthetic DNA tools to perhaps make the flu vaccine that you might get next year.

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.

You know, my partners at Kleiner and I were compulsive networkers, and so when we see a big problem or an opportunity like avian flu or personalized medicine, we just get together the smartest people we know.

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

Laurie Garrett on lessons from the 1918 flu

This is not your normal garden variety flu.

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On Wednesday, I learned from Laurie Garrett that I'm definitely going to get the bird flu, and I wouldn't be at all worried about that if we never had any contact with Asia.

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.