Sentence examples for rare flu from inspiring English sources

PEAPACK - ON a recent brisk morning, more than 400 elderly people some with canes, walkers and wheelchairs -- began lining up outside the Borough of Gladstone and Peapack Municipal Complex here as early as 4 a.m. for a chance to get a rare flu shot.

Researchers have identified the gene that may have made a rare flu strain particularly lethal.

White-coated health care workers fanned out across the international airport here to look for ailing passengers, and thousands of callers fearful they might have contracted the rare swine flu flooded government health hot lines.

However, with rare exceptions, the flu is not a serious illness.

In rare cases, a bird flu virus strain gains the mutations necessary to multiply quickly inside a mammal and spread to others.

The case of a Westchester County man who survived an extremely rare case of avian flu last fall has local, state and federal health officials grappling with a troubling mystery.

Other experts warned that during outbreaks of H5N1 avian flu — another rare but potentially lethal influenza that has circulated since 1997 — live markets in countries like Vietnam and Egypt simply ignored orders to close.

They report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that genes of the 1918 virus were most likely present in swine or human hosts at least 2 and possibly 15 years before the pandemic began and combined to form the deadly virus during multiple reassortments, presumably rare events in which flu viruses exchange genes.

Secondary objectives were comparison of the immunogenicity of Flu-50 to Flu-25 and to the control, comparison of safety/reactogenicity in children vaccinated with Flu-50 to Flu-25 or the control and documentation of rare events, in children administered with Flu-25 or Flu-50.

The flu is still rare in humans — only 135 cases were confirmed before it disappeared in the summer, but 45 were fatal.

Outside Philadelphia, there was a home-care nurse who'd lost her job when she developed partial paralysis as a result of a rare autoimmune complication from the flu shot that her employers required her to get.