With increasing time since diagnosis, only the severe infections continued to cause symptoms.
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Sep 24, 2010
Sep 21, 2010
(CIDRAP News) The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently issued new guidance for preventing flu in healthcare settings that reflects a year's worth of new information about the 2009 H1N1 virus and recommends surgical masks rather than N-95 respirators when providing routine care for flu patients.
Sep 16, 2010
(CIDRAP News) Human "sensors" who are in the hubs of friend networks can detect flu outbreaks at least 2 weeks earlier than surveillance systems that track, for example, doctors' visits and may someday be a useful tool for identifying other diseases and behaviors, researchers reported yesterday.
Sep 14, 2010
(CIDRAP News) Observers who staked out public restrooms in four US cities found that 85% of people using the facilities washed their hands afterward, the highest level since researchers began regularly studying the behavior in 1996, according to a report released yesterday.
(CIDRAP News) – Japan today approved a new long-acting influenza antiviral drug, Inavir (laninamivir), made by Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd., marking the second new flu drug licensed there this year.
