Flu Action has two aims:
To give you an understanding of influenza
To convince you of the need to take action to limit the
impact of influenza in your life.
This website contains many underlined links in blue to helpful,
websites. Just move your mouse to any blue (or purple) website
and then click the left-hand side of the mouse.
Both British and American websites are listed.
Choose those of most interest to you.
Personal advice
A good start is the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Guide to Swine Flu,
printed in The Guardian of 30 July 2009 at:
at:
www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/besttreatments/2009/jul/30/swine-fl
u-the-definitive-guide
It should be noted that the balance of medical opinion is moving
toward a consensus that antivirals (e.g. Tamiflu and Relenza) should
not be given to people who have been exposed to influenza, but show
no signs of having the disease. Furthermore, on 21 August 2009 the
World Health Organization (WHO) reported that "the consensus
reached by an international panel of experts" is that "healthy patients
with uncomplicated illness need not be treated with antivirals." Also,
"otherwise healthy children, older than 5 years, need not be given
antiviral treatment unless their illness persists or worsens." See:
www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/notesh1n1_use_antivirals_2009082
0/en/index.html
Antivirals, when taken within 48 hours of the onset of influenza, remain
very useful for people with underlying illnesses, as well as pregnant
women.
For information about children and influenza, see the article, "Children:
The Bioterrorists we love" at:
www.thebulletin.org/columns/laura-kahn/20070917.html
A Global Perspective
The World Health Organization (WHO) anticipates that during the next
few years one-third of the world population, some two billion people,
could eventually be infected. BBC News of 24 July 2009 sets out the
position at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/8167961.stm
As David Brooks of The New York Times explains, this novel H1N1
Influenza A virus has global implications. See:
www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/opinion/28/brooks.html
To give you an understanding of influenza
To convince you of the need to take action to limit the
impact of influenza in your life.
This website contains many underlined links in blue to helpful,
websites. Just move your mouse to any blue (or purple) website
and then click the left-hand side of the mouse.
Both British and American websites are listed.
Choose those of most interest to you.
Personal advice
A good start is the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Guide to Swine Flu,
printed in The Guardian of 30 July 2009 at:
at:
www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/besttreatments/2009/jul/30/swine-fl
u-the-definitive-guide
It should be noted that the balance of medical opinion is moving
toward a consensus that antivirals (e.g. Tamiflu and Relenza) should
not be given to people who have been exposed to influenza, but show
no signs of having the disease. Furthermore, on 21 August 2009 the
World Health Organization (WHO) reported that "the consensus
reached by an international panel of experts" is that "healthy patients
with uncomplicated illness need not be treated with antivirals." Also,
"otherwise healthy children, older than 5 years, need not be given
antiviral treatment unless their illness persists or worsens." See:
www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/notesh1n1_use_antivirals_2009082
0/en/index.html
Antivirals, when taken within 48 hours of the onset of influenza, remain
very useful for people with underlying illnesses, as well as pregnant
women.
For information about children and influenza, see the article, "Children:
The Bioterrorists we love" at:
www.thebulletin.org/columns/laura-kahn/20070917.html
A Global Perspective
The World Health Organization (WHO) anticipates that during the next
few years one-third of the world population, some two billion people,
could eventually be infected. BBC News of 24 July 2009 sets out the
position at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/8167961.stm
As David Brooks of The New York Times explains, this novel H1N1
Influenza A virus has global implications. See:
www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/opinion/28/brooks.html
Flu Action:
understand and mitigate the pandemic of 2009-2011
understand and mitigate the pandemic of 2009-2011
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