Vaccination— Vaccination can reduce your chances of getting the flu and transmitting it to others. Vaccination each year is recommended for everyone aged 6 months and older. Vaccination is particularly recommended for All children and adolescents aged 6 months to 18 years of age. This is ...
throat, and sometimes your lungs. You can get sick by being around someone with the flu when they cough, sneeze, or talk. That's because the virus travels through the air on tiny droplets of fluid. If flu germs land on a surface and you touch them, then touch your nose, eyes, or ...
Ask the Expert: Case Study -- 38-Year-Old Woman With Persistent Flu-Like SymptomsBy Stephen TabetM.DM.P.H. and Kate Willner
the most severe disease pandemics ever encountered, was caused by a subtype of influenza A known asH1N1. During thispandemican estimated 25 million persons throughout the world died of the so-called Spanish flu, which was first widely reported in Spain but originated in theU.S. stateof ...
"One of the more common causes of smell loss is a virus, including other coronaviruses that cause the common cold," Steven Munger, director of the University of Florida Center for Smell and Taste, told U.S. News last year. In some people who have tested positive for the virus, in fact...
When people think of Lyme disease, they often imagine the red, circular bull’s-eye rash or target lesion after a tick bite. That happens in less than half the cases, and it comes after the rash has been around for a while. Each year, over 300,000 cases of Lyme disease are diagnosed...
The loss of subcutaneous fat on a person's body (people with more subcutaneous fat have fewer wrinkles) Although all of our skin ages, sun exposure dramatically enhances the rate at which this occurs. Changes brought on by sun damage (photoaging) include dry skin (really roughness), sagginess...
Last year, it didn’t officially begin until mid February, which, although considerably late, is better than the early start we’re getting this year. Some health officials worry that the flu’s early arrival may be an omen for a particularly rough flu season ahead. And, in some places,...
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JAMA. A 29-Year-Old Woman With Flu-like Symptoms - Review of Influenza Diagnosis and TreatmentWelcome to the SCIENTIFIC LIBRARYDiagnosis & Testing