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  2. Prevention of influenza - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Non-pharmaceutical intervention (epidemiology) - Wikipedia

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    At the time, the science behind NPIs was new, and was not applied consistently in every area. Retroactive studies on the outbreak have shown that the measures were effective in mitigating the spread of the infection. [37] [38] The use of non-pharmaceutical interventions during the 1918 flu pandemic also gave rise to new societal concerns.

  4. Spanish flu - Wikipedia

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    Despite the high morbidity and mortality rates that resulted from the epidemic, the Spanish flu began to fade from public awareness over the decades until the arrival of news about bird flu and other pandemics in the 1990s and 2000s. [320] [321] This has led some historians to label the Spanish flu a "forgotten pandemic". [177]

  5. Your guide to healthy living this October: Why you should be ...

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    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that people ages 6 months and older get their flu vaccine by the end of October. This year it’s even easier, especially if you’re wary ...

  6. Influenza pandemic - Wikipedia

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    The 1918 flu pandemic, commonly referred to as the Spanish flu, was a category 5 influenza pandemic caused by an unusually severe and deadly Influenza A virus strain of subtype H1N1. The difference between the influenza mortality age-distributions of the 1918 epidemic and normal epidemics.

  7. Some people in high-stress jobs avoid burnout entirely ... - AOL

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    Burnout has blazed a destructive path through offices in the U.S. and around the world over the past few years during a global pandemic that has forced people to work under stressful and traumatic ...

  8. Influenza A virus subtype H5N2 - Wikipedia

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    A highly pathogenic strain of H5N2 caused flu outbreaks with significant spread to numerous farms, resulting in great economic losses in 1983 in Pennsylvania, USA in chickens and turkeys, in 1994 in Mexico in chickens and a minor outbreak in 1997 in Italy in chickens. [16]

  9. Spanish flu research - Wikipedia

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    In the event of another pandemic, US military researchers have proposed reusing a treatment from the deadly pandemic of 1918 in order to blunt the effects of the flu: Some military doctors injected severely afflicted patients with blood or blood plasma from people who had recovered from the flu. Data collected during that time indicates that ...