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  2. Treatment of influenza - Wikipedia

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    Treatments for influenza include a range of medications and therapies that are used in response to disease influenza. Treatments may either directly target the influenza virus itself; or instead they may just offer relief to symptoms of the disease, while the body's own immune system works to recover from infection. [1]

  3. Influenza - Wikipedia

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    In 1977, H1N1 reemerged in humans, possibly after it was released from a freezer in a laboratory accident, and caused a pseudo-pandemic. [34] [77] This H1N1 strain was antigenically similar to the H1N1 strains that circulated prior to 1957. Since 1977, both H1N1 and H3N2 have circulated in humans as part of seasonal influenza. [1]

  4. Oseltamivir - Wikipedia

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    In adults, oseltamivir increased the risk of nausea for which the number needed to harm was 28 and for vomiting was 22. So, for every 22 adult people on oseltamivir one experienced vomiting. In the treatment of children, oseltamivir also induced vomiting. The number needed to harm was 19.

  5. Pandemrix - Wikipedia

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    Pandemrix was found to be associated with narcolepsy from observational studies, increasing the risk of narcolepsy by 5-14 times in children and 2-7 times in adults. The increased risk of narcolepsy due to vaccination in children and adolescents was around 1 incident per 18,400 doses. [ 6 ]

  6. 2009 swine flu pandemic - Wikipedia

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    Children infected in the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic were no more likely to be hospitalized with complications or get pneumonia than those who catch seasonal strains. About 1.5% of children with the H1N1 swine flu strain were hospitalized within 30 days, compared with 3.7% of those sick with a seasonal strain of H1N1 and 3.1% with an H3N2 virus. [198]

  7. FDA approves preventive RSV treatment for infants and toddlers

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    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a treatment for the prevention of RSV among infants and toddlers, making it the first preventive drug for the common virus that surged last ...

  8. Prevention of influenza - Wikipedia

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    Children are much more infectious than adults and shed virus from just before they develop symptoms until two weeks after infection. [1] [2] The transmission of influenza can be modeled mathematically, which helps predict how the virus will spread in a population. [3] Influenza can be spread in three main ways: [4] [5]

  9. The Top Symptoms of RSV To Be Aware of in Older Adults ...

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    “In adults over the age of 65, symptoms almost always include a cough, whereas with the flu, coughing is usually just present in about two-thirds of patients,” he says.