Sentence examples for lethal flu from inspiring English sources
Millions of pounds are spent on Tamiflu, funds presumably diverted from such medical priorities as vaccine against the real – and truly "lethal" – flu that visits Britain each winter.
But with the threat of a lethal flu looming and with Western companies able to produce enough vaccine each year for less than a quarter of the world, Indonesia is trying to secure an affordable supply for its people.
The World Health Organisation says a new strain of bird flu that has killed 22 people in China is "one of the most lethal" flu viruses so far, and that it is more easily transmittable from poultry to humans than an earlier strain that has killed hundreds around the world since 2003, according to the Independent.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that a new strain of bird flu that has killed 22 people in China is "one of the most lethal" flu viruses so far, and that it is more easily transmittable from poultry to humans than an earlier strain that has killed hundreds around the world since 2003.
The study suggests that faulty genes could explain other cases of lethal flu.
So when a study in the British Medical Journal barged its way to the front of health care headlines last week (past more weighty topics, like news of a new and highly lethal flu strain in China), I was all ears... and scalp.
On 30 August, the well regarded Egyptian newspaper Almasry reported that an Egyptian man who returned from a religious pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia had tested positive for both the highly lethal bird flu virus, H5N1, and the novel H1N1 strain that's behind the swine flu pandemic.
A dream ticket for some Republicans, it would mean lethal bird flu for the neocon hawks.
But medical authorities fear that the virus could mutate into a lethal human flu strain and touch off a global pandemic that could kill millions.
In contrast, the lethal avian flu that has kept world health authorities anxious for years is caused by H5N1 influenza virus.
His best hope now is for a lethal swine flu epidemic next winter, in which the British suffer significantly fewer deaths than most other developed countries and the NHS emerges with flying colours.
