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  • How to Avoid the Flu

    Warning: Consult your physician before taking any over-the-counter vitamins or medication and before getting a flu shot.


  • Why Flu Tends to Affect Healthy People Worse

    You know some older people who got the flu. You know some younger people who got the flu. What about all the people in the middle?


  • How does saline irrigation help cold symptoms?

    Upper respiratory symptoms from flu and colds can be very uncomfortable. The most common cause of colds and flu is the rhinovirus, which lives in nasal passages. It enters through the nostrils and passes to the back of the nose, where it invades c...


  • Avian Flu

    Birds carry avian, or bird flu in their intestines. Wild migratory birds are not affected, but domestic birds get very sick, and many die. Bird flu spreads among people through airborne particles that enter the mouth or nose. People cannot get it ...


  • The Importance of Vaccination

    Carolyn Buxton Bridges: The best thing as preventing influenza is the use of influenza vaccine that by far and away is the best means for prevention. And there’s no way we want to vaccinate people who are risk of the complications from the influen...


  • Pneumonia

    Pneumonia means inflammation of the lungs due to infection, most commonly a viral infection, such as a cold or flu. Bacteria, fungi, or other organisms can also cause pneumonia. Risk increases with old age, youth, or a suppressed immune system. Ho...


  • How does a virus cause a cold?

    Upper respiratory symptoms from flu and colds can be very uncomfortable. The most common cause of colds and flu is the rhinovirus, which lives in nasal passages. It enters through the nostrils and passes to the back of the nose where it invades ce...


  • Learn About the Symptoms of HIV

    Let's talk about the symptoms of HIV - which is slightly misleading because HIV doesn't have any symptoms. HIV is virus that you're infected with that may or may not lead to AIDS. People who are infected with HIV often don't know they are infected...


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