We always experience discomfort when experiencing a fever and flu.. Here is a guide to face fever and flu season :- Uploaded with ImageShack.us 1. Wash Your Hands The easiest, but not taken seriously in countering the germs. Always washing hands, and make sure the children you are rubbing their hands at least 20 seconds. [...]

With flu season fiercely upon us, AL.com, an online news network in Alabama, asked Dr. Turner Overton, a doctor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at UAB who is leading a flu vaccine study, and Dr. Mary McIntyre, the assistant state health officer for disease control with the Alabama Department of Public Health, to answer [...]

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CD) are asking people whose attend agricultural fairs to take precautions when around pigs. It is because of a rise in the number of cases of a ‘swine flu’ virus in humans.  People need to avoid contact with the animals especially under 5s, sick people, pregnant women [...]

There’s a new study on Asian bird flu that have prompted debate whether there’s enough safeguard in place. A study involving a genetically modified flu virus has put a spotlight on calls for tighter international oversight of biomedical research whose bugs pose a high risk of global disease outbreak if released accidentally. It is one [...]