A bout of violent stomach flu immediately set in.
Here's the review of episode one Washington DC is beset by hot weather and an outbreak of a particularly violent gastric flu virus.
A vaccine against norovirus, a food poisoning virus that causes violent stomach flu, could be available within five years if it can be shown to be safe when taken as a nasal spray, scientists said.
"Doctors will initially mistake the symptoms for violent stomach flu; but organ failure occurring so quickly will make them think otherwise," the letter reads.
ONE winter, during a flu season almost as violent as this one, I had an interview scheduled in Maine with the state's attorney general.
He had to face the fallout from his government's suppression of news of an outbreak of bird flu, as well as criticism over the violent deaths of more than 2,500 people during a crackdown on drugs in 2003.
The landscape of emerging infections in our November issue, broad, diverse, and fueled by human activity, rivals Bruegel's in geographic expanse, topographical detail, and the threat of unrelenting human hazard: antimicrobial drug resistance, violent conflict, HIV/AIDS, vectorborne infections, epizootic (H5N1) and pandemic flu, ecologic disasters, community- and hospital-acquired infections.
"This news could hardly be more worrying -– not only have these people confirmed they suffered violent attacks from outsiders in Peru, but they have apparently already caught flu," Survival International director Stephen Corry said in a news release.
Whooping cough, a highly contagious bacterial disease characterised by fits of violent coughing, can lead to brain damage and death in infants in severe cases, but adults generally only suffer flu-like symptoms.
