The article focuses on the issue of antiviral stockpiling amidst the H1N1 flu epidemic in Canada in 2009. It recalls similar health threats during the years 1940 and 2000. A comparison with the stockpiling activity that happened in 2005 is detailed. Also noted is the conflict of interest ...
According to the National Influenza Center (updated February 12, 2023), there was a peak in influenza epidemic in December last year, after which the epidemic trend declined. However, the past weeks we have seen an increase of outpatient emergency departme...
you can take comfort in the fact that humanity has survived a similar influenza epidemic in the past. Starting its rounds at the end of World War I, the 1918 flu killed an estimated 50 million people. It killed more people in a year than the Bubonic Plague, and in its more than a ye...
In the Four Corners area alone, 3,293 deaths were registered among Native Americans. Entire villages perished in Alaska. In Canada 50,000 died. In Britain, as many as 250,000 died; in France, more than 400,000. In West Africa, an influenza epidemic killed at least 100,000 people in ...
In the face of a flu epidemic, a one-size fits all vaccine strategy won't be effective, a York University study has found. Instead, strategies need to change significantly depending on the characteristics of each region in Canada and how easily the particular flu strain spreads. ...
"Send only your serious cases"--delivering flu to Toronto: an anthropological analysis of the 1918-19 influenza epidemic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada This project looks at the 1918-19 pandemic influenza experience in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Based on historical records (most notably death ...
In this article, we'll review the basics of how viruses and influenza work, and we'll learn the answers to these and other questions about avian flu, including whether it is likely to cause a global flu epidemic. Contents Viruses and Influenza: An Overview Avian Flu Avian Flu H5N1 ...
Officials say it's possible that we could see several more weeks of increased fu activity before the epidemic finally starts to wane. "Flu is incredibly difficult to predict. We don't know if we've hit the peak yet," Dr. Anne Schuchat, acting director of the CDC, said in a press br...
The U.S. government tried to ban Canadian horses, but acted too late. Within a month border towns were infected, and the “Canadian horse disease” became a North American epidemic. By December the virusreached the U.S. Gulf Coast, and in early 1873 outbreaks occurred in West Coast...
prepared for the emergence of SARS. [18]. Human-to-human chains of transmission have emerged in Canada, Toronto, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, China, Vietnam Singapore and Hanoi. The SARS epidemic had a short history and the WHO announced the winding down of the SARS epidemic in July 2003 ...