Last year things were more complicated due to the unique situation with the H1N1 pandemic. This year the message is simple; almost everyone who is older than six months should get a ‘flu vaccine, which may seem a bit extreme, but certainly more vulnerable groups including pregnant women should take advantage of the seasonal ‘flu [...]

Tamiflu is approved for the treatment of the Influenza virus and also aids from further spread with in the body, treating flu at its source. Its mechanism of action includes attacking the virus that causes the ‘flu instead of simply masking the symptoms of the ‘flu in adults and children over 1 year of age. [...]

Doctors are inviting vulnerable groups to attend sessions for this season’s influenza vaccination at their surgeries and at special clinics being held, before the onset of winter when the usual outbreak of the virus is expected. The groups that are most vulnerable are adults over the age of 65 years, have a chronic health condition, [...]

In 2005 an outbreak of the H5N1 virus in South East Asia, otherwise referred to as “bird ‘flu” led to widespread fear with predictions that the intercontinental migration of wild birds could lead to global pandemic. Such fears were never realised, and now research published in the British Ecological Society’s Journal of Applied Ecology reveals [...]

Two preclinical studies which evaluated AVI-7100 against a fully virulent pandemic H1N1 popularly referred to as the swine flu virus had promising results, says AVI Biopharma Inc. In many circles it has been considered that this virus was no longer a problem, but we should not be complacent as this can, and in all probability [...]

Nausea in pregnant women tends to fade after the first three months, but during the later months of pregnancy could be signs of impending ‘flu. Adults with ‘flu symptoms tend to have nausea and vomiting, normal in the early stages of pregnancy of course. It is important that both physicians and patients should be aware [...]

Scientists are warning the public and the medical profession, to continue to be vigilant regarding the influenza known as bird flu as is still out there and is likely to reappear again this year. Based on reported statistics, once it infects humans, the H5N1 bird flu virus kills humans at a much higher rate than [...]

There has been a lot of debate about the MMR vaccine, which is recommended to be given to children at around the age of 13 months, with a booster given at between ages three to five years, certainly before they start school. Concern has been raised in some quarters that the combined vaccine is linked [...]

The seasonal ‘flu vaccination programme is well under way and you hear it in every office and pub, it’s not for me anyway it gives you the ‘flu! Well let’s put that myth straight, flu vaccinations are not live viruses and they will not give you influenza. Everyone over the age of 65 and everyone, [...]