However, from 1988 to 2012 (with the exception of the 2005 season, due to an outbreak of a flu-like virus), the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League held their summer training camp at Northern Arizona University The NAU training camp location has been cited as one of the top five training camps in the NFL by Sports Illustrated.
The technology can potentially result in savings of a billion dollars a year in season flu vaccines alone and reduce the burden on the manufacturer of a new flu vaccine that is needed in sufficient quantity in a short time in an event of an outbreak of a new flu viral strain or pandemic.
Mexican and US health officials are searching for signs that an outbreak of a new flu strain is spreading further, after it killed up to 68 people in Mexico and infected eight in the United States.
Last year, for instance, four markets in New Jersey had an outbreak of an H7 flu.
The outbreak of the pandemic flu, Influenza A H1N1 (Swine Flu) in early 2009, provided a major challenge to health services around the world.
Amid an unusually widespread outbreak of the flu, a medical association of allergy specialists said Friday that even children with severe egg allergies should get flu shots.
The tactic was also used in an outbreak of a different bird flu in the Netherlands in 2003.
Dr. Isaac B. Weisfuse, the city's deputy health commissioner for disease control, told an audience of about 300 business people that since history repeats itself, he considers it likely that there will be a worldwide outbreak of flu, possibly a mutation of the current avian flu, sometime in the 21st century, just as there were killer disease epidemics in virtually every other century.
As it wrapped up business for the year, Congress also gave final approval to a $453.3 billion military spending bill that included $50 billion for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, $29 billion in new aid for hurricane victims, $3.8 billion to prepare for a possible outbreak of avian flu and a governmentwide 1percentt spending cut.
"With an outbreak of bird flu there is a surveillance zone [in which movement of birds is restricted] of 3km, so if one person got bird flu it could shut down a big commercial unit.
