They included the 1957 Asian Flu (type A, H2N2 strain) and the 1968 Hong Kong Flu (type A, H3N2 strain), but even these smaller outbreaks killed millions of people.

So that's why every year you can catch a slightly different strain of flu.

This year's swine flu strain grew very poorly in early production basically .6 doses per egg.

We need rapid diagnostics so that we can tell if somebody has a strain of flu which we have only identified very recently.

The main variants named using this convention are Bird Flu, Human Flu, Swine Flu, Horse Flu and Dog Flu.

Think of cancer, of bird flu, swine flu, SARS.

Just look at pandemics swine flu, bird flu, H1N1.

Bird flu.

An avian adapted, highly pathogenic strain of H5N1 (called HPAI A(H5N1), for highly pathogenic avian influenza virus of type A of subtype H5N1 ) causes H5N1 flu, commonly known as avian influenza or simply bird flu , and is endemic in many bird populations, especially in Southeast Asia.

Bird flu Flu symptoms in birds are variable and can be unspecific.

I caught the flu.

I've caught the flu.

It's probably the flu.

As variable as flu is, HIV makes flu look like the Rock of Gibraltar.

Examples of avian influenza A virus strains Influenza pandemic Pandemic flu viruses have some avian flu virus genes and usually some human flu virus genes.

We tried it against flu A viruses H1N1, H3N2 as well as flu B viruses.

That's the sound of genetic mutations of the avian flu becoming a deadly human flu.

So this, swine flu pink.

Such a subtype could cause a global influenza pandemic, similar to the Spanish Flu, or the lower mortality pandemics such as the Asian Flu and the Hong Kong Flu.

He's in bed with the flu.

I was vaccinated against the flu.

And that most people who die of regular flu which in regular flu years is about 360,000 people worldwide, most of them senior citizens and they die not of the flu but because the flu gives an assault to their immune system.

The 1918 flu pandemic (Spanish flu pandemic) was truly global, spreading even to the Arctic and remote Pacific islands.

The 1889 1890 flu pandemic, also known as Russian Flu, was first reported in May 1889 in Bukhara, Uzbekistan.

The strain is beginning to tell on him.

Mary uses a paper filter to strain coffee.

Well, you could develop flu like symptoms.

And now comes the Spanish flu also.

Luckily, this year's flu was relatively mild.

I have the flu and I'm tired.

I was in bed with the flu.

The flu can worsen chronic health problems.

Later flu pandemics were not so devastating.

Modelling In a solid, shear stress is a function of strain, but in a fluid, shear stress is a function of strain rate.

You strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.

It also cured her of the Strain 88 virus.

Laurie Garrett on lessons from the 1918 flu

This is not your normal garden variety flu.

Seth Berkley HIV and flu the vaccine strategy

So today, we get our flu vaccines from ...

This medicine is not effective against the flu.

We want to pretend that Mexico has the flu.

It was before the avian flu had reached Europe.

So let's take a look at the flu virus.

A serious form of flu prevails throughout the country.