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    Influenza, commonly known as "the flu" or just "flu", is an infectious disease caused by influenza viruses. Symptoms range from mild to severe and often...
    107 KB (12,655 words) - 00:56, 29 May 2024
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    potentially be protected from specific strains of the virus by vaccination. Humans and other mammals can only become infected with avian influenza after prolonged...
    74 KB (8,570 words) - 22:33, 27 May 2024
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    have been six major influenza epidemics in the last 140 years, with the 1918 flu pandemic being the most severe; this is estimated to have been responsible...
    109 KB (12,560 words) - 20:27, 27 May 2024
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    the influenza virus rapidly changes. While their effectiveness varies from year to year, most provide modest to high protection against influenza. Vaccination...
    177 KB (17,743 words) - 01:02, 7 May 2024
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    Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus...
    238 KB (26,791 words) - 06:52, 29 May 2024
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    pandemic, caused by the H1N1/swine flu/influenza virus and declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) from June 2009 to August 2010, was the third recent...
    161 KB (16,811 words) - 06:29, 15 April 2024
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    Between the fall of 1789 and the spring of 1790, influenza occurred extensively throughout the United States and North America more broadly. First reported...
    60 KB (7,083 words) - 22:34, 7 February 2024
  • deadliest pandemics in history, and was caused by an H3N2 strain of the influenza A virus. The virus was descended from H2N2 (which caused the Asian flu...
    67 KB (8,100 words) - 01:34, 24 April 2024
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    The pandemic H1N1/09 virus is a swine origin influenza A virus subtype H1N1 strain that was responsible for the 2009 swine flu pandemic. This strain is...
    61 KB (6,693 words) - 20:56, 8 May 2024
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    Oseltamivir (category Drugboxes which contain changes to verified fields)
    brand name Tamiflu, is an antiviral medication used to treat and prevent influenza A and influenza B, viruses that cause the flu. Many medical organizations...
    63 KB (5,774 words) - 09:01, 1 May 2024
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    excess mortality from Russian influenza in the Russian Empire for the period 1889–1890 could be from 60,000 to 90,000 people, with lethality from the virus...
    37 KB (3,818 words) - 06:53, 17 May 2024
  • timeline of influenza, briefly describing major events such as outbreaks, epidemics, pandemics, discoveries and developments of vaccines. In addition to specific...
    52 KB (2,481 words) - 17:49, 19 October 2023
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    reporting the severity of influenza pandemics in the United States. The PSI was accompanied by a set of guidelines intended to help communicate appropriate...
    11 KB (1,254 words) - 18:11, 19 May 2024
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    Influenza A virus subtype H7N9 (A/H7N9) is a bird flu strain of the species Influenza virus A (avian influenza virus or bird flu virus). Avian influenza...
    99 KB (10,209 words) - 16:37, 30 December 2023
  • species Influenza A virus that is endemic in birds, horses and dogs. It is the main cause of equine influenza and is also known as equine influenza virus...
    11 KB (1,343 words) - 22:31, 20 September 2023
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    The Nine Tailors (category Articles with short description)
    Thoday, absent bell ringer, struck down with influenza Mary Russell Thoday, William Thoday's wife, previously married to Deacon James "Jim" Thoday, William's...
    17 KB (2,219 words) - 04:18, 28 April 2024
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    Pandemic (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    individuals. Widespread endemic diseases with a stable number of infected individuals such as recurrences of seasonal influenza are generally excluded as they occur...
    94 KB (9,293 words) - 04:09, 19 May 2024
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    strain of influenza emerged in Asia, then spread to Africa, Europe, and eventually the Americas. This flu was highly infectious and presented with intense...
    52 KB (5,507 words) - 22:45, 24 February 2024
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    Hemagglutination assay (category Articles with short description)
    the surface of red blood cells (RBCs) bind to the hemagglutinin glycoprotein found on the surface of influenza virus (and several other viruses) and create...
    12 KB (1,501 words) - 10:09, 12 January 2024
  • 1936–37 NHL season (category Articles with short description)
    Hooley Smith to Boston. It was hoped that Carl Voss of the former Eagles would fill in adequately for him, but he came down with influenza and was not...
    26 KB (1,166 words) - 06:07, 23 April 2024
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