Twins | Flu vaccine | Taylor Swift and Trump | Shopping | Plumbing BrexitI am a twin. One thing that grated when my sister and I were growing up was the constant reference to us as “the twins” or “one of the twins”. You aren’t an individual. You’re som…
Last year not everyone entitled to a free vaccination got one. This government must take its share of the blame for thatIt’s September, and that means headlines about flu season. It started with the news that NHS staff who refuse to have the flu jab ma…
Last year not everyone entitled to a free vaccination got one. This government must take its share of the blame for thatIt’s September, and that means headlines about flu season. It started with the news that NHS staff who refuse to have the flu jab ma…
Public Health England says newly licensed drug FluAd will save 30,000 GP consultations and prevent 700 hospital deathsA flu vaccine that was licensed in Italy 20 years ago is to be used for the first time in the UK this winter in a bid to cut the death…
The pandemic wiped out up to 100 million lives, but scientists still struggle to explain what caused it. The answers could ensure that it never strikes againOne hundred years ago this month, just as the first world war was drawing to a fitful close, an…
NHS bosses take decision to help cope with extra pressure on service during winterHospital staff in key areas of NHS care who refuse to have the flu jab will be moved to other units this winter in order to protect patients’ safety.NHS bosses have taken…
The 1918 pandemic ravaged the remote city of Östersund. But its legacy is a city – and country – well-equipped to deal with 21st century challengesOn 15 September 1918, a 12-year-old boy named Karl Karlsson who lived just outside Östersund, Sweden, wro…
GPs urged to tell patients to use over-the-counter remedies rather than the drugsDoctors are to be told to promote honey and over-the-counter remedies as the go-to treatment for coughs rather than antibiotics.They will be told not to offer the drugs in…
Letters: the Spanish flu is receiving marked attention in its centenary year, writes Hannah MawdsleyThe victims of the 1918 Spanish flu have been far from forgotten on the centenary of this deadly period in 20th-century history (A century on, why …
The 1918 Spanish flu outbreak killed more people than both world wars. Don’t imagine such a thing could never happen againThis year marks a century since some women got the vote; a century since the end of the first world war; 50 years since the 1968 r…
Unless, that is, you’re directly next to an infected person, or a steward is contagiousFlyers who live in fear of catching bugs on every flight, take heart: the risk of picking up respiratory infections while cruising at 35,000 feet may be slimmer th…
Unless, that is, you’re directly next to an infected person, or a steward is contagiousFlyers who live in fear of catching bugs on every flight, take heart: the risk of picking up respiratory infections while cruising at 35,000 feet may be slimmer th…
It’s completely horrible and potentially deadly – but at least it’s got us talking to each otherIt goes spring, summer, autumn, winter, flu. This is a season of sickness, and the only season yet to be immortalised in a poem. There are no hedges a…
Some doctors say this is the worst flu season they have seen in decades. Some people are saying that, tooThe flu has further tightened its grip on the US This season is now as bad as the swine flu epidemic nine years ago.A government report on Friday s…
Tests later revealed Melissa Whiteley, 18, was also suffering from sepsis and pneumoniaA young engineering student reportedly died of flu after her family followed NHS warnings over Christmas not to go to A&E unless it was an emergency.Melissa Whit…
Gloria Copeland’s advice to ‘inoculate yourself with the word of God’ met with scorn amid worst flu epidemic in a decadeA Texas evangelist preacher and member of Donald Trump’s faith advisory council told parishioners to skip the flu shot in fa…
Hannah Devlin explores why 2018 is such a bumper year for seasonal flu and asks how scientists are trying to fight backSubscribe & Review on iTunes, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud & Acast, and join the discussion on Facebook and TwitterLast we…
Death toll from virus hits 155, with 35 people dying last week aloneThree times as many people are dying of flu this winter compared with last year, with the UK death toll from the virus hitting 155, figures show.Last week saw a big jump in the number …
Death toll from virus hits 155, with 35 people dying last week aloneThree times as many people are dying of flu this winter compared with last year, with the UK death toll from the virus hitting 155, figures show.Last week saw a big jump in the number …
The NHS is facing a flu outbreak. We want to hear about the situation where you areHospitals and GPs are being hit by one of the worst flu outbreaks in recent years. After 35 deaths last week, 120 people across the UK have died of flu-related symptoms …
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