The fear of a global avian flu epidemic is real.
Fuel poverty can contribute to increased risk of heart attack, stroke and respiratory conditions such as flu, pneumonia and bronchitis.
They suffered from headaches, flu-like symptoms and stomach upsets.
This funding includes £60 million for an improved flu campaign and £142.5 million to provide over 340 additional adult critical care beds.
There are several parallel problems in wartime military triage and civilian disaster or emergency triage, for instance, in a pandemic flu situation with scarcity of antivirals and/or vaccines.
For example, in 1997 a financial bonus was offered to the medical group that achieved the highest rate of flu immunization for seniors, as documented by administrative claims data.
Symptoms are relatively non-specific, namely nausea, acute onset of profuse and watery diarrhoea, lack of appetite, vomiting, weight loss, abdominal pain and flu-like symptoms [1, 5].
Most postnatally acquired infections are asymptomatic or present only with flu-like symptoms.
