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Faring Through Flu Season: Influenza Prevention & Treatment
It contains information on the causes, diagnosis, treatment (including conventional and alternative remedies), prevention, and links to both internal and external information for further reading.
Feeling the Flu
This CBC News Online article dispels the ten most common misconceptions about the influenza virus. Provided are information and statistics as they relate to Canada. An excellent read in lay language, this article goes very in-depth while remaining very readable.
FightFlu.com
FightFlu is a comprehensive source of information on the flu vaccination in association with the Canadian Lung Association. Included are: risk categories for the flu, who shouldn’t get the flu vaccination, flu in the workplace, and links to other sites on the flu and vaccination. Also provided are PDF (Adobe Acrobat) files with in-depth information on the flu virus and a flowchart for diagnosis.
Flu Watch
This site is maintained by The Division of Respiratory Diseases, Laboratory Centre for Disease Control of Health Canada. This site provides a weekly or biweekly report on the status of the flu virus in Canada. Regularly updated, zoomable maps are provided for easy localization. Statistics for all areas are also provided. Links provided to other Health Canada articles provide a large volume of information on the influenza virus in general, reports on various programs relating to influenza, and immunization information.
FluNet
The World Health Organization maintains this web site. It contains information on current flu conditions in participating countries. Also included is laboratory information on recently isolated strains and the contents of vaccines in the northern and southern hemisphere. Several documents available in HTML and PDF are available containing the Influenza Pandemic Plan and recent news on the global influenza condition.
Influenza: Ask NOAH
Ask NOAH provides a large volume of approved links to a great number of medical conditions. The influenza page provides an impressive number of links on influenza in general (the basics, children and influenza, and complications of influenza), care and treatment (both conventional and alternative), and prevention (the basics, and vaccination). This is an excellent gateway to a number of credible information sources.
NIH Press Release
This news release from the National Institute of Health reports the efficacy of a nasal spray influenza vaccine. Also includes some general background information on the influenza virus.
The American Experience: Influenza 1918
This site is provided by PBS. It is a historical view of the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic in the United States. A transcript of the TV program of the same title is provided as well as additional documentation, maps, a month-by-month timeline of the spread of the flu, and a bibliography for further reading on the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918.
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