As luck would have it, though, the new advice agrees more closely with the recommendations of the CDC's advisory committee on immunisation practices about the best approach to the epidemic of N1H1 swine flu that is now circulating.
We exchanged letters every Christmas until he passed away in the flu epidemic of 1918.
The final great epidemic of the 20th Century was Russian flu, which hit Britain in 1977.
Much of the running commentary on Twitter is a reaction to news events, so when a flu epidemic becomes a national news story, the number of people talking about it spikes, regardless of their own health status.
Masahiro Kawai, an official at the Asian Development Bank, this week urged the region to prepare for a slump in the dollar, the probability of which he compared to that of a global bird-flu epidemic: it is far from a certainty but would have a tremendous impact if it happened.
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Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Nearly 3, 900 people, including about 540 children, are believed to have died from the H1N1 flu in the first six months of the epidemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
It also enables authorities to monitor outbreaks of bird flu for the dangerous mutations and so nip a potential epidemic in the bud.
Last week 7.3% of US deaths were caused by pneumonia and the flu, just above epidemic threshold, said the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The flu epidemic didn't spare Hollywood as actor Tommy Lee Jones reportedly missed out of picking up his statue for outstanding male actor in a supporting role for "Lincoln" because he was sick.
An annual flu shot is a must, and she got one for whooping cough too when an epidemic of pertussis erupted a few years ago.
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