That paper included one of the first estimates of how many deaths are actually caused by the flu — a number hard to pin down because doctors seldom confirm flu in their patients with lab tests.
Except for few experiments completed with fluoxetine (FLU), the number of studies dedicated to the elimination of antidepressants by oxidation processes (e.g. TiO2 membrane reactor, O3 with UV activation, O3 with H2O2) has been rather limited [22 24].
Each year, 5,000 6,000 French citizens die of the winter epidemic of flu, a number equivalent to traffic casualties.
After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the avian flu epidemic, the number dipped to 650.
The researchers found no influence of airline travel on the severity of the flu, or the number of people who die during each year's flu season.
So while the disease does not appear to be more severe than seasonal flu, a disproportionate number of young people will probably get it.
In fact, some hospitals have said, they are no longer testing patients for the flu, because the number have become so overwhelming.
Doctors normally expect the vaccine to work in half of those who receive it, but evolution of the H3N2 strain of flu meant the number protected fell to just three in every 100 people.
I nearly died when I had my stem-cell transplant, and with a battered immune system spent the first year after treatment ill with shingles, tonsillitis, sinusitis, swine flu and any number of other tedious, mind-numbing complaints.
Decamol Flu syrup (batch number 1943) (Middle East pharmaceuticals and cosmetics laboratories, Palestine) was used.
