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Effectiveness of wastewater treatment may be damaged during a severe flu pandemic

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Existing plans for antiviral and antibiotic use during a severe influenza pandemic could reduce wastewater treatment efficiency prior to discharge into receiving rivers, resulting in water quality deterioration at drinking water abstraction points.
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Categories Blog Entry, Earth, Energy & Environment, Health

Over-reactive immune system kills young adults during pandemic flu

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On November 19, Jason Martin returned to the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) at Vanderbilt University Medical Center for the first time since he nearly died there during last year’s H1N1 flu pandemic. The tall and burly Warren County, TN, amb…

Categories Blog Entry, Health

NIH scientists explore 1510 influenza pandemic and lessons learned

U.S. National Institutes of Health

History’s first recognized influenza pandemic originated in Asia and rapidly spread to other continents 500 years ago, in the summer of 1510. A new commentary by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the…

Categories Blog Entry, Health

New study re-examines bacterial vaccine studies conducted during 1918 influenza pandemic

U.S. National Institutes of Health

WHAT:
Secondary infections with bacteria such as Streptococcus pneumoniae, which causes pneumonia, were a major cause of death during the 1918 flu pandemic and may be important in modern pandemics as well, according to a new article in the Journal …

Categories Blog Entry, Health, Life & Non-humans

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