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Flu Vaccine Less Effective in Winter 2007/2008 than in Previous Winters
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- A new Harris Poll confirms the findings of a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC that the vaccine used to prevent the flu this last winter was less effective than the flu vaccines used in previous winters. In three previous winters...
Tags: flu, Harris Interactive, HEALTHCARE, vaccine, winter
Research articles 2008-05-06
'World gripped by flu pandemic': lessons from 50 years ago
PARIS AFP — "A major wave of influenza is approaching from the Far East," an article published almost 50 years ago in the British journal New Scientist began ominously. The experts, it said, were "keeping their lips sealed and their fingers crossed." But neither silence nor prayer could...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, fatality, flu, HEALTHCARE, influenza, scientist, SECURITY, strain, vaccine, virus
Research articles 2007-02-19
Flu pandemic prep: with the possibility of a deadly flu pandemic—today's worry being avian flu—good planning may be the best medicine. Is your school prepared?
THE PROSPECT OF AN AVIAN FLU EPIdemic in the near future makes most disaster films pale in comparison. As a newly mutated form of the H5N1 virus spreads rapidly from human to human, public transportation comes to a sudden stop, public events are canceled, and public schools--and many workplaces--shut down....
Tags: Benefits, Carnegie-Mellon University, flu, HEALTHCARE, Maryland, SOFTWARE, University of Minnesota
Research articles 2007-02-01
Preventing panic: public readiness and emergency preparedness are essential for insurers should a deadly influenza pandemic strike the United States such as the killer flu of 1918.
Public health experts warn of an influenza pandemic that could be as bad as, or worse than, the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed the equivalent (in terms of the current U.S. population) of 1.9 million people. An Insurance Information Institute analysis estimated that if a new...
Tags: analysis, Benefits, FINANCE, flu, HEALTHCARE, influenza, Insurance, Insurance Information Institute
Research articles 2007-01-01
International bird flu conference slated for Mali in December
BAMAKO AFP — The fourth international conference on bird flu, with 600 participants, will take place from December 6-8 in Bamako, a Malian cabinet official has said. The conference will "take stock of the past year's global efforts against avian flu and evaluate the risks of human pandemic flu," Minister...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, conference, flu
Research articles 2006-11-23
You'll Sneeze If Your Suppliers Get the Flu
A simulation at MIT of an avian flu outbreak in China underscores the need for companies to consider possible supply chain disruptions as part of their plans for handling emergencies. The simulation, hosted by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics in April, was played out before an audience...
Tags: China, flu, logistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, supplier, Transportation
Research articles 2006-06-01
Dealing with the Flu at Work
Dealing with the Flu at WorkDealing with the Flu at WorkOne the things we do at my job is alow our employee to stay home and rest. There was one occation that I had an employee that was ill she had the flu. So we diecided to give her...
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Discussion threads 2008-02-15
Dealing with the Flu at Work
Having just gotten my butt kicked by a virulent form of the flu that's making its way around San Francisco, I've been thinking a lot about sickness and productivity recently. It's a complicated issue. Certainly, there's the battle being waged between your desire to get work done and your desire...
Tags: David Goldenberg, Sales, Sales Tools, Flu, Cold Calling
Blog posts 2008-02-14
Spinning a cytokine storm: the likelihood of an avian flu pandemic is the subject of raging expert debate. Alarmists claim corporate America isn't doing enough to protect itself. Skeptics point to interests vested in whipping up hysteria. Either way, we h
A deadly virus sweeps through towns across the globe, wiping out millions of people in days. Victims suffer from high fever. They're left gasping for air. It sounds like a plot from a Stephen King novel. The problem is that this isn't fiction, neither past nor present. It...
Tags: flu, influenza, SECURITY, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, virus
Research articles 2006-04-15
400 Chinese students hospitalized with unknown flu
BEIJING AFP — Over 400 students at a university in central China's Henan province were hospitalized with high fevers linked to an unknown flu virus, state press and a school official have said. The outbreak began on March 26 when 22 students were hospitalized with high fevers, Xinhua news...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Benefits, flu, HEALTHCARE, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2006-04-02
Poultry industry limps back as flu fear fades.
Byline: Gouri Agtey Athale Mar. 9--PUNE, India -- The domestic poultry industry, slowly limping back to normalcy, has been losing Rs 384 crore a day since February 17, the day the outbreak of avian flu was declared in Navapur, in Maharashtra's Nandurbar district. ...
Tags: flu, Government, Strategy
Research articles 2006-03-09
Avian flu pandemic preparedness resources available to employers
NEW YORK -- Mercer Human Resource Consulting has launched a global initiative to provide companies with planning information and advice to address the people challenges of a potential global avian flu pandemic. This initiative was developed in response to growing client concerns as the avian flu outbreak spreads from Southeast...
Tags: flu, Mercer, Mercer Human Resource Consulting
Research articles 2006-02-28
Using Cell Phones to Teach Pandemic Flu Preparedness.
Byline: University of Illinois at Chicago CHICAGO, Feb. 20 AScribe Newswire -- A team from the University of Illinois at Chicago has developed the first interactive tool using mobile phones to educate the public about pandemic flu. The free, interactive media --...
Tags: flu, MARKETING, mobile, phone, team, University of Illinois
Research articles 2006-02-20
Study Shows Media Coverage on Flu Influences Parents to Vaccinate Their Children.
Byline: Vanderbilt Medical Center NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 9 AScribe Newswire -- Media coverage about influenza and the importance of flu shots influenced parents to vaccinate their children against the influenza virus, according to a study done by researchers and information officers at Vanderbilt ...
Tags: flu, HEALTHCARE, influenza, M.D., Vanderbilt University
Research articles 2006-02-09
Preparedness plans, vaccine development, farmer compensation called for, as ecosoc holds special event on 'urgent, global' threat from Avian flu.
M2 PRESSWIRE-4 November 2005-UN: Preparedness plans, vaccine development, farmer compensation called for, as ecosoc holds special event on 'urgent, global' threat from Avian fluC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:03112005 No country was exempt from the spread of Avian flu, and preventing ...
Tags: compensation, flu, Government, HEALTHCARE, influenza, poultry, SECURITY, U.N., vaccine, virus, World Health Organization
Research articles 2005-11-04
Quidel Corporation and Roche to Collaborate in Pilot Program for Influenza Management in U.S. This Flu Season
Tamiflu([R]) and QuickVue([R]) to Be Utilized Jointly to Facilitate Timely Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of Flu
Tags: flu, pilot program, Roche Holding AG
Research articles 2007-12-06
Human flu pandemic 'inevitable' in Britain: chief medical officer
LONDON AFP — The deadly avian influenza virus found in Turkey and Romania is bound to combine with a human variety at some point and cause a pandemic that would kill around 50,000 people in Britain, the country's chief medical officer said. "The significance of it isn't that there...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Britain, flu, Romania, Turkey, virus
Research articles 2005-10-16
Bush Would Use Military to Quarantine Avian Flu Pandemic
WASHINGTON, DC ENS — --> In the event of a bird flu pandemic that spreads among humans in the United States, President George W. Bush is considering using the military to impose a quarantine on the affected areas. Currently state governors command their state National Guard units, but the President...
Tags: Bush, flu, Governor, HEALTHCARE, president, SECURITY, U.S. Congress, White House
Research articles 2005-10-04
The coming pandemic: fire departments urged to make contingency plans for avian flu.(EMS)
In the 1953 and 2005 films "War of the Worlds," aliens from another planet invade Earth with the purpose of destroying the human race. Nothing our military throws at the creatures can stop them. But, after several days, the aliens start dying. What is killing them? ...
Tags: alien, flu, HEALTHCARE, immunity, influenza, outbreak, SECURITY, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, vaccine, virus
Research articles 2005-10-01
Germs, and Germaphobes, in the Office
I'm the president of a mid-sized company, and this spring we hired a new woman as an account executive. It became immediately apparent that this woman was a bit of a germaphobe. She uses tubs of hand sanitizer and avoids physical contact with other humans. This was all fine until...
Tags: Sales tools, Where's The Line?, Microsoft Office, cold calling, flu
Blog posts 2007-10-30
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