” slight haemagglutinin mutation — a difference of only three amino acids — had apparently allowed the bird virus to open the lock on human cells and infect the child.’
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H5N1
April 30, 2009The Great Influenza
April 30, 2009A dead man has no substance unless one has seen him dead; a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination.’
Swine Flu in History
April 30, 2009‘Better a vaccine without an epidemic than an epidemic without a vaccine.’ Slowly, memories of the Great Influenza seemed to fade, and the various strains of thevirus stayed hidden away in the bodies of animals such as pigs and birds. People began to feel the flu pandemic was an aberration that could never be repeated.
Some Easy Home Remedies to fight Winter Flu
October 19, 2008Home Therapies Alternative therapies may help strengthen your body’s ability to fight the virus and can help ease temporary flu symptoms. Aromatherapy Relief In flu season, when those around you are coming down with the virus, protect yourself by gargling daily with 1 drop each of the essential oils of tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia) and [...]
