Statins reduce inflammation, as well as cholesterol, and much of the lung damage in life-threatening flu infections is caused by the "cytokine storm," the inflammatory overreaction of the body's immune system to invasion by the virus.
Some are concerned that the increasingly dense networks of swiftlet houses could create disease flight paths for the avian flu, threatening both the local bird populations and potentially humans, as well.
We are threatened by avian flu, swine flu, SARS, MERS, and Ebola, to name just a few.
3 August 2017, Johannesburg – The recent outbreaks of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), commonly referred to as the bird flu, are threatening the livelihood and food security status of millions of families in the region.
Therefore, we reasoned, making people feel safer about a dangerous flu virus should serve to calm their fears about immigrants — and making them feel more threatened by the flu virus should cause them to be more against immigration than they were before.
An outbreak of swine flu that has jumped the species barrier from pigs to humans – infecting up to 1,300 people and threatening to cause a global flu pandemic – is likely to arrive in Britain, the scientist who is heading the UK's response said last night.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla .— The group most threatened by swine flu and most in need of the new vaccine, world health authorities agree, is that of pregnant women.
AS the swine flu threatens to become the next pandemic, the biggest questions are whether its transmission from human to human will be sustained and, if so, how virulent it might become.
Jump to media player China is heading for the Golden Week holiday, which typically gives Taiwanese tourism a boost - but an outbreak of bird flu threatens to disrupt the flow.
Quite clearly, avian flu threatens to be more widespread than SARS, with the potential to become a truly global pandemic.
The story has you trying to climb, jump and shoot your way to freedom from a scientific facility where you're being held by humans as they try to find a cure for the Simian Flu that's threatening to wipe them out.
