On average, children can have 7–10 cold/flu incidences per year, with higher incidences for children attending daycare or school.2,3 Cold/flu medications used to alleviate symptoms such as codeine, hydrocodone, and decongestants are not recommended for children and there is little evidence ...
Excess death rates are computed as the number of excess deaths per expected deaths. Darker grays indicate higher excess deaths. The countries shaded diagonally participated in WW1. Full size image Fig. 3: Average tariffs in the decades 1910s, 1920s and 1930s. The maps show standardized tariff...
Influenza infections represent a serious public health threat worldwide, with winter seasonal outbreaks being responsible for 1 billion cases, 3 to 5 million severe cases, and 290,000 to 650,000 deaths each year [1,2]. Moreover, the influenza virus poses a permanent risk of the emergence of...
Each division of the armed services was reporting hundreds of deaths each week due to flu. Philadelphia was the hardest-hit city in the United States. After the Liberty Loan parade (celebrations to promote government bonds that helped pay for the Allied cause in Europe) on September 28, ...
Significant deviation between user's search- ing behaviour and ILI rates was noted for the 2003-2004 influenza season when influ- enza activity, pediatric deaths and news media coverage of influenza were particularly high. This highlights another understudied issue: that we need to work hard to ...
Attributes such as acti- vity radius, average indoor stay per day, most frequently visited places, time spent in dormitory, cafeteria, class- room, gym, and so on may be easily derived. Such attri- butes can be analysed statistically to investigate their relationships to students' flu status...