is the flu dead?if yes explain why is it deadly.?
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i am not understanding your question.  are you asking if the flu is deadly?  it's deadly to small children and the elderly, and to people with lowered immune systems.
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flu can kill quicker.
688359
The funniest part about a few of these answers are the people talking about having a healthy immune system. Has anybody ever heard of the worldwide outbreak of flu in 1918? Look into it. Learn from the past. The group it killed off the most was an unusual one. It was the younger, healthier people. It didn't follow the normal path of killing off the youngest, oldest, and weakest. \n\nWhy you ask? Because the younger, healthy, normally heartier people were the ones that had the STRONGEST immune system. The virus was just so bad that their young, healthy, strong immune systems overcompensated in fighting it off. Most of the time it was the persons own immune system that killed them off, not the virus. So if I were you people I wouldn't count on my immune system to save the day if there's another flu pandemic.\n\nI have been lenient in stocking up on food and water like I should. I have been stocking up on face masks, latex gloves, soap, Lysol spray, bleach, etc. though. I'm not hoping that I will be able to avoid getting the flu if a pandemic hits. It's my hope that my family and I will be able to avoid the peak of the waves it will come in. And *hopefully* avoid needing a hospital during a peak(as i'm sure at that point they will be quite useless). If it comes it comes, you can only avoid it for so long, and can't depend on a healthy immune system to save you. The main thing is to be focused on is increasing your, and you families, chances of surviving when you do get it. \n\nI hope I do not live to see the next flu pandemic. 1918, people. Study it. Learn from it.
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not many places actually reporting cases of flu yet. Probably normal cold virus- treatment is the same at this stage anyway.
729770
My philsophy is "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger."  EDIT: The company I work for is giving away free flu shots.  I tell eveybody they are really "loyal employee" shots.  :)
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Seasonal Flu\n\nOutbreaks are predictable and seasonal; usually in the winter\nThere is usually some immunity from previous exposure.\nHealthy adults are usually not at risk; primarily affects the elderly, the very young, and the chronically ill.\nThe public health system can meet patient needs.\nVaccine is available and usually very effective.\nAdequate supplies of antivirals are usually available.\nAnnual US deaths about 36,000\nSymptoms include:\nfever\ncough\nrunny nose\nmuscle pain\ndeaths usually occur from complications such as pneumonia\nModest impact on society (e.g., school closing and sick people stay home from work)\nminimal impact on world economy\n\n\nPandemic Flu\n\n\nOccurs rarely (3 times in the last 100 years)\nBecause there is no previous exposure, there is no existing immunity\nEven healthy people are at risk\nNumber of cases could overwhelm the health care system\nNo vaccine until later in the pandemic\nLimited supplies if any effective antivirals\nDeaths could number in the millions worldwide\nSymptoms are more severe with more complications\nMajor impact on society \nwidespread school and business closings, quarantines, travel restrictions)\nSevere impact on the world economy.\n\n\n\n\nWhat is pandemic influenza?\n \n\nInfluenza viruses cause infections of the respiratory tract (breathing tubes and lungs). In some persons, complications of influenza can be severe, including pneumonia. \n\nPandemic influenza is a global outbreak of disease from a new influenza A virus that is unlike past influenza viruses. Because people have not been infected with a similar virus in the past, most or all people will not have any natural immunity (protection) to a new pandemic virus.\n\nHow is a pandemic different from regular flu season?\n \n\nA pandemic flu is a new influenza virus that could be a much more serious flu virus than seen in a typical flu season. Different from the typical strains of flu, humans would have no or little natural resistance to a new strain of influenza. Also, there is a vaccine for seasonal flu, which is prepared each season against new variations of the seasonal influenza. There is no vaccine available at this time for a pandemic flu, and it is expected to take at least six months after a pandemic flu appears to develop a vaccine.\n\nWhy is pandemic influenza so serious?\n \n\nBecause most or all people would not have immunity to a new pandemic virus, large numbers of persons around the world can be infected. If the pandemic virus causes severe disease, many people may develop serious illnesses.\n\nOnce a pandemic virus develops, it can spread rapidly causing outbreaks around the world. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) predicts that as much as 25% to 30% of the US population could be affected. \n\nCan pandemic flu be prevented?\n \n\nPublic Health – Seattle & King County is working with federal, state, and other local government agencies to respond to pandemic influenza and to maintain essential health care and community services if an outbreak should occur. In fact, governments all around the world are preparing for the possibility of a pandemic outbreak under the leadership of the World Health Organization.\n\nIt is not possible to prevent or stop a pandemic once it begins. A person infected with influenza virus can be contagious for 24 hours before the onset of symptoms, and for seven days thereafter, making it extremely easy for the virus to spread rapidly to large numbers of people.\n\nAlthough the federal government is stockpiling medical supplies and antiviral drugs, no country in the world has enough antiviral drugs to protect all their citizens. Anti-viral drugs can be used to treat severe cases as long as there was a reasonable chance that the drugs might help save lives. Antiviral drugs might also be prioritized for people who work in essential occupations, such as health care workers.\n\nOther strategies for slowing the spread of a severe influenza outbr
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it was called the "Spanish Flu"  And it was a couple of years earlier... It affected the whole world.. That is why The "Bird Flu' was such a HUGE concern...\n\nThe global mortality rate from the 1918/1919 pandemic is not known, but is estimated at 2.5 – 5% of the human population, with 20% of the world population suffering from the disease to some extent. Influenza may have killed as many as 25 million in its first 25 weeks; in contrast, AIDS killed 25 million in its first 25 years. Influenza spread across the world, killing more than 25 million in six months; some estimates put the total killed at over twice that number, possibly even 100 million.\n\nIn the U.S., about 28% of the population suffered, and 500,000 to 675,000 died. In Britain 200,000 died; in France more than 400,000. Entire villages perished in Alaska and southern Africa. In Australia an estimated 10,000 people died and in the Fiji Islands, 14% of the population died during only two weeks, and in Western Samoa 22%. An estimated 17 million died in India, about 5% of India's population at the time. In the Indian Army, almost 22% of troops who caught the disease died of it.\n\nWhile World War I didn't cause the flu, the close quarters and mass movement of troops quickened its spread. It has been speculated that the soldiers' immune systems were weakened by the stresses of combat and chemical attacks, increasing their susceptibility to the disease.
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It has been fatal in 56% of cases (up to 1st may)\n\nCheck out www.bbc.co.uk and search for bird flu. They have a detailed explanation of it that is easy to understand. Whats more, the information on it is correct!
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Bird flu is not equivalent to Y2K; it is worse! It kills people, not computer systems! People can function without computers but they can't function if they are dead!
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I guess the big deal is if you read the history books about the 1918 virus its really scary.  There were 1.5 million Americans killed in that influenza with another 10 million or so dead around the world.  It is tagged the N1H1 virus and this is an offshoot of it.  As virus are always mutating it possible that this one could too and become more of a killer.   \n\nGo to a bookstore or Amazon and look for books on the big influenze of 1918.  References to it were nearly written out of our history.  Now that's amazing!!
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This flue is not normal in humans, so thast why government is worried about it. Y?? it doesnt cause only fever, it kills. Actually there is no cure for this desease, only treatment for the consecuences and thats y people is  dying. Cause it affects lungs (blood in lungs), so people stop breathing. And u know most of the people int he world r poor so they wont be able to get this treatment and will die.\nAlso this virus could mutate, and people will get it by being close of an infected person. Cause now u get it ionly if u eat chicken meat. So thats y they r worried, cause they dont have medication, and it would be a pendemia soon if they dont find solutions.
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Kill all affected birds, human in direct contact with those birds are prone to bird flu, last 3 years 92 people are dead from bird flu and all were bird handlers.\n\nThere is no harm in eating well cooked chicken and egg.\n\nIt has not yet spead from humam to human but danger is still there.
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After consulation with members of the health protection agency (UK), i disagree with the last guy to answer. The general consensus of opinion is that bird flu will mutate, and it is obly a matter of time. However, it may mutate and lose its virility; it may end up no more annoying than a cold. It may have even already mutated, but we just havent noticed it in the population...\n\nHow do i plan to prepare? the best advice is to take any flu jabs OFFERED, and have a few extra tin goods in the house, so you can stay inside longer than normal, but there is no need to panic buy.\n\nBird flu has currently got a death rate of 56%, which is very high for any disease, and avain flu's have a habit of mutating into a mammalian form, so we should be on our guard.
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because your body is fighting hard to fight off the infection, thats also why you feel tired and run down when you have the flu. so your body is working hard and using up all your energy
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Together pneumonia and influenza are the seventh leading cause of death in the US. The age-adjusted\ndeath rate was 21.9 per 100,000 for pneumonia. The total number of deaths attributed to pneumonia in the USA (in 2001, the latest date I could find) was 61,777.\n\nTrends in Pneumonia and Influenza:\nhttp://www.lungusa.org/atf/cf/{7A8D42C2-FCCA-4604-8ADE-7F5D5E762256}/PI1.PDF
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there's a chance that a highly infectious disease with a long enough period of incubation could travel enough via its hosts to kill a lot of people. I don't know if it would be able to kill everyone though, it seems unlikely.
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You should read this article about the propaganda Health Canada spews about the flu shot:\n\nhttp://www.prematureoptimism.com/blog/?page_id=47\n\nMyth: The Canadian Health Network’s information page titled “Getting serious about the Flu” states that “Influenza (or flu) is a common respiratory illness affecting millions of Canadians each year.”6\n\nTruth: According to the Canada Communicable Disease Report, the actual number of confirmed cases of influenza for 2001 – 2002 flu season was 6258, that means a whopping 0.02% of the Canadian population actually contracted influenza in 2001-2002.7 For the 2003-2004 year it was 11,435 cases of influenza, that’s 3.6 % of the population actual contracted influenza in 2003-20048, a far cry from millions.\n\nTruth: Canada Communicable Disease Report (CCDR) shows that in the 2001-2002 and the 2003-2004 flu seasons, only 12% of all the suspected influenza cases across Canada were confirmed by laboratories to indeed be the influenza virus. 7, 8 The other 78% of Influenza like Illnesses (ILI) were caused by other culprits (mycoplasma pneumonia, adenovirus, respiratory syncytial virus, rhinovirus, para-influenza viruses, and Legionella spp.)9 and would therefore not respond to the influenza vaccine.\n\nMyth: According to the Canadian Health Network, out of these apparent millions that contract influenza “up to 1,500 Canadians, mostly seniors, die from influenza-related pneumonia”.6\n\nTruth: According to Statistics Canada, a total of 63 people died in Canada from influenza in 2002 (most recent stat), out of these 63 deaths, 34 progressed to Pneumonia and resulted in death, 57 of those who died from influenza in Canada occurred in individuals 80 years and older.10