Influenza Virus Net is the web resource for anyone interested in influenza and flu pandemics. Influenza, commonly referred to as the flu, is an infectious disease caused by RNA viruses of the family Orthomyxoviridae (the influenza viruses), that affects humans, birds and other mammals. The virus spreads easily from person to person. Influenza circulates worldwide and can affect anybody in any age group. Influenza causes annual epidemics that peak during winter in temperate regions. Influenza is a serious public health problem that causes severe illnesses and deaths for higher risk populations. The most common symptoms of the disease are chills, fever, sore throat, muscle pains, severe headache, coughing, weakness/fatigue and general discomfort. Sore throat, fever and coughs are the most frequent symptoms. In more serious cases, influenza causes pneumonia, which can be fatal, particularly for the young and the elderly. An influenza epidemic can take an economic toll through lost workforce productivity, and strain health services. Vaccination is the most effective way to prevent infection.

The objectives of Influenza Virus Net are to be the public and professional information resource for influenza and to serve as a network in the exchange of information and news related to influenza.

• Flu vaccine reduces influenza risk with no effect on coronaviruses - Healio
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• How Deadly Was the 2019-2020 Flu Season? - Contagionlive.com
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• Compare the flu pandemic of 1918 and COVID-19 with caution – the past is not a prediction - The Conversation US
  Thu, 04 Jun 2020 12:30 GMT
• Cell-Cultured Superior to Egg-Derived Influenza Vaccine - Infectious Disease Advisor
  Thu, 14 May 2020 07:00 GMT
• Empty phage viruses as a method to combat influenza - Drug Target Review
  Tue, 26 May 2020 07:00 GMT
• No Relationship Reported Between Seasonal Influenza Vaccine... : Neurology Today - LWW Journals
  Thu, 04 Jun 2020 04:11 GMT
• Looking back at Lambton County’s Spanish Flu experience - Sarnia and Lambton County This Week
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• How COVID-19 is different from the flu - MinnPost
  Fri, 15 May 2020 07:00 GMT
• Alberta's hard-right premier dismisses coronavirus as “influenza” - World Socialist Web Site
  Fri, 05 Jun 2020 05:31 GMT
• How coronavirus lockdowns stopped flu in its tracks - Nature.com
  Thu, 21 May 2020 07:00 GMT
• COVID-19 vs Influenza, They're Not The Same - Urban Milwaukee
  Fri, 08 May 2020 07:00 GMT
• 2019–2020 influenza season: repurposing surveillance systems for COVID-19 - World Health Organization
  Tue, 26 May 2020 07:00 GMT
• Ohio State's first pandemic: Influenza - OSU - The Lantern
  Tue, 26 May 2020 07:00 GMT
• Here's Why COVID-19 Is Much Worse Than the Flu - Healthline
  Thu, 14 May 2020 07:00 GMT
• Influenza virus "hijacks" body defense: Aussie study - Xinhua | English.news.cn - Xinhua
  Sat, 09 May 2020 07:00 GMT

• PRO/AH/EDR> Avian influenza (45): India, poultry, wild bird, zoo, HPAI H5N1, OIE
  Thu, 04 Jun 2020 08:19:56 -0400
  Avian Influenza H5N1 -- India
  Information received on [and dated] 2 Jun 2020 from Dr Atul Chaturvedi, secretary, Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, New Delhi, India
  Summary
  Report type: immediate notification
  Date of start of the event: 15 Mar 2020
  Date of confirmation of the event: 20 Mar 2020
  Reason for notification: recurrence of a listed disease
  Date of previous occurrence: 3 Sep 2019
  Manifestation of disease: clinical disease
  Causal agent:

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