In addition, a major influenza epidemic spread around the world.

This has happened in the Netherlands in the 1990s during the classical swine fever outbreak.

In 1918, we had a flu epidemic in the United States that killed 20 million people.

And actually, about a year or so ago, there was this promulgation of the idea of Google Flu Trends, with respect to the flu, where by looking at people's searching behavior today, we could know where the flu what the status of the epidemic was today, what's the prevalence of the epidemic today.

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

Typically, in a year's normal two flu seasons (one per hemisphere), there are between three and five million cases of severe illness and around 500,000 deaths worldwide, which by some definitions is a yearly influenza epidemic.

So this would be a technique whereby we could get more than a month and a half warning about a flu epidemic in a particular population.

The first convincing record of an influenza pandemic was of an outbreak in 1580, which began in Russia and spread to Europe via Africa.

Mexican health officials have become concerned with an outbreak of swine flu, which has caused the deaths of 68 in Mexico City, and another 1,000 have fallen ill.

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

And we have a terrible chlamydia epidemic terrible chlamydia epidemic which sticks around for many years.

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.

Because it originated in Hong Kong, the pandemic is also referred to as Hong Kong flu.

Bird flu.

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

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

There were many cases of influenza.

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

I've caught the flu.

I am getting a cold.

This is the epidemic in Mozambique. This is an epidemic in northern Tanzania.

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

Influenza Wild aquatic birds are the natural hosts for a range of influenza A viruses.

Mary was weak and ill from May 1558, and died aged 42 at St. James's Palace during an influenza epidemic that also claimed the life of Reginald Pole later the same day, 17 November 1558.

Tom caught a cold.

The red dots are going to be cases of the flu, and the yellow dots are going to be friends of the people with the flu.

Swine flu In pigs swine influenza produces fever, lethargy, sneezing, coughing, difficulty breathing and decreased appetite.

My wife catches colds easily.

Influenza models, such as murine influenza, are convenient models to test the effects of prophylactic and therapeutic biologics.

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

In addition, because obesity is not a unicentric epidemic, there's not a Patient Zero of the obesity epidemic if we find that guy, there was a spread of obesity out from him it's a multicentric epidemic.

You've given me your cold.

So this, swine flu pink.

I was in bed with the flu.

He caught a terrible cold.

Have you something for a cold?

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

The epidemic spread worldwide.

Laurie Garrett on lessons from the 1918 flu

This is not your normal garden variety flu.

And this flu has wiped through the population of bees.

The flu can worsen chronic health problems.

In 686, plague broke out at Jarrow.

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.

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.