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Reasonably effective ways to reduce the transmission of influenza include good personal health and hygiene habits such as: not touching your eyes, nose or mouth; [6] frequent hand washing (with soap and water, or with alcohol-based hand rubs); [6] eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables; [16] covering coughs and sneezes; avoiding close contact with sick people; and staying home yourself if ...
[177] [176] According to Oxford, a similar outbreak occurred in March 1917 at army barracks in Aldershot, [178] and military pathologists later recognized these early outbreaks as the same disease as the Spanish flu. [179] [176] The overcrowded camp and hospital at Étaples was an ideal environment for the spread of a respiratory virus.
“Both flu A and flu B can be lethal, but flu A tends to cause more severe disease,” he says. Another major difference, according to Dr. Adalja: Flu B “does not cause pandemics,” but flu A ...
“The flu virus, like all viruses, is not alive, so it can’t be killed,” says infectious disease expert Amesh A. Adalja, M.D., senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security ...
The best way to prevent severe illness from a respiratory virus is to stay up to date with vaccinations. Children should get a flu shot every year, starting when they are 6 months old, the CDC ...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as Dr. Terrence Tumpey examines a reconstructed version of the 1918 flu. In 1995, Jeffery Taubenberger of the US Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP), wondered if it might be possible to recover the virus of 1918 flu pandemic from the dried and fixed tissue of victims.
1918 campaign on the dangers of Spanish flu Ministry of Health poster used during the Second World War, designed by H. M. Bateman. Later film produced in 1945 "Coughs and sneezes spread diseases" was a slogan first used in the United States during the 1918–20 influenza pandemic – later used in the Second World War by Ministries of Health in Commonwealth countries – to encourage good ...
There's a reason this time of year is called "Cold and Flu Season" and there's a reason doctors recommend getting a flu shot.