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  2. Spanish flu - Wikipedia

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    [181] [180] According to Oxford, a similar outbreak occurred in March 1917 at army barracks in Aldershot, [182] and military pathologists later recognized these early outbreaks as the same disease as the Spanish flu. [183] [180] The overcrowded camp and hospital at Étaples was an ideal environment for the spread of a respiratory virus.

  3. Do at-home flu tests really work? Here's everything you need ...

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    In their annual influenza recommendations for children, the American Academy of Pediatrics notes that at-home flu tests can be used on children as young as 2 years old, “but data on the use of ...

  4. How to Get Free Flu and COVID-19 Tests and Treatments - AOL

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    Tamiflu and Paxlovid Credit - Matthew Baker—PA Images/Getty Images; Fabian Sommer—dpa/AP. A s we head into winter, health experts expect that cases of flu and COVID-19 will start to creep up ...

  5. Influenza-like illness - Wikipedia

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    Influenza-like illness (ILI), also known as flu-like syndrome or flu-like symptoms, is a medical diagnosis of possible influenza or other illness causing a set of common symptoms. These include fever, shivering , chills , malaise , dry cough , loss of appetite , body aches, nausea , and sneezing typically in connection with a sudden onset of ...

  6. We're in flu season. What are symptoms? How to tell it's not ...

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    Over 160,000 people this season have landed in the hospital from flu complications, CDC estimates. More than 6,600 have died. Here's the symptoms.

  7. Influenza - Wikipedia

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    [84] [85] [86] The shortened form of the word, "flu", is first attested in 1839 as flue with the spelling flu confirmed in 1893. [87] Other names that have been used for influenza include epidemic catarrh, la grippe from French, sweating sickness, and, especially when referring to the 1918 pandemic strain, Spanish fever. [88]

  8. Is it COVID-19 or the Flu? Here’s How to Test and Protect ...

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    Only testing someone for the flu and COVID-19 can accurately determine the illness they are dealing with, says William Schaffner, M.D., an infectious disease specialist and professor at the ...

  9. Spanish flu (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    the 1918 flu pandemic where 500 million people worldwide were infected with H1N1 influenza A virus between 1918 and 1920, killing from 20 to 100 million people; the Influenza A virus subtype H1N1 which caused the influenza pandemic between 1918 and 1920, as well as the 2009 swine flu pandemic and 1977 Russian flu pandemic