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 …
Number of people seeking help in England rises 153% in fortnight, with Midlands and the east hit hardestThe number of people dying from flu in the UK has reached 120 already this winter – three times higher than in the same period last year.Thirty-fi…
This strain won’t be as deadly as the Spanish flu, which killed 50 million, but we must always be on our guard. The best thing to do is get vaccinatedWhat is it with us and the blame game? This year, Australia is taking the rap for sending us flu, a …
John Oxford says there has been no major outbreak of Australian flu in UK and there are too few doctors and nursesA leading virologist has said there has been no major outbreak of Australian flu in the UK and its threat is obscuring the real problem fa…
It’s not just England’s cricketers being demolished by the Aussies – a strain of flu that has proved deadly in the antipodes is pummelling the UKName: Australian flu.Full name: Influenza A virus subtype H3N2. Related: Lung experts ‘deeply concern…
Hard-pressed staff are doing their best during the latest NHS crisis, writes a London hospital consultantA&E waiting areas full, wards and beds full, corridors full; people are queuing, ambulances queuing. We can all see and feel it.It’s unhelpfu…
Catholic diocese of Down and Connor suspends ‘sign of peace’ during services and calls for sanitary measures around holy communionA Catholic diocese in Northern Ireland has suspended the “sign of peaceâ€� handshake in its masses due to the risk o…
Unprecedented apology from the prime minister came on hospital visit after 24 people died last week of fluTheresa May apologised to the tens of thousands of people affected by NHS England’s decision that hospitals should postpone non-urgent operation…
Cancelling appointments and non-urgent surgery ban are options as hospitals reel under most intense pressure in decadesThe NHS is reeling under what doctors’ leaders and hospital chiefs say is the most intense strain it has faced in decades as a resu…
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