Anyone who doubts that flu deaths can be horrific need only read the memoirs of physicians like Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, who treated influenza victims in 1918.
Without doubt, fear of avian flu shaped the world's response to swine flu.
Re "This Could Be the End of Civility" (news article, Sept. 4), about avoiding the transmission of swine flu: I doubt I'm alone in welcoming news that hugging hellos should be curtailed.
Burress, who missed exhibition games with everything from ankle and back problems to a case of the flu, never doubted he would be ready.
But Brylin, who had the flu last week, doubted he would be ready for Game 3. "It's not likely," Robinson said.
But Dr. Bresee said he doubted that last year's flu vaccine was to blame, since the H1 strain in it protected "not perfectly, but relatively well" against H1N1 infection.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention strongly doubts that this year's flu vaccine will offer people any protection from the swine flu.
Four days prior to the game, Clark's presence at the game was put even more in doubt when he caught the flu and developed a 102-degree fever.
No little pill to pop, no magic syrup, no aggressive vitamin that will make it all go away... even the flu vaccine has doubts and misconceptions (although still recommended for those age 18-65); it now seems that new studies reveal its effectiveness is limited to less than 60percentt, as The Huffington Post elaborates here.
As the countless stories about flu season have no doubt reminded you, every year the World Health Organization has to make a call about what should go in the annual influenza vaccine.
[C1.] Poultry Producers Prepare for Avian Flu Fears Poultry producers and restaurants doubt that their chickens will be infected by avian flu or that people would catch the virus even if there were to be contamination.
