Influenza / Clay Farris Naff, book editor.
Provides information about diseases and disorders, focusing on controversies and first-person accounts. This volume covers symptoms, causes and effects, treatments, cures and medical advances in influenza.
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Detroit, Mich. :
Greenhaven Press,
[2011]
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| Series: | Perspectives on diseases and disorders.
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Table of Contents:
- An overview of the flu
- A survey of flu viruses
- Flu viruses are difficult to predict and contain
- A faster, more effective test to diagnose flu
- Next-generation flu vaccines are emerging
- Flu outbreaks are caused by a drop in humidity
- Avian flu threatens human life
- Swine flu is a major public health threat
- Swine flu is not likely to be a major public health threat
- Benefits of the flu vaccine outweigh the risks
- Benefits of the flu vaccine do not outweigh the risks
- The misery of suffering through flu
- A doctor comes down with swine flu
- Flu hits youth hard.