Every winter, people running a fever and complaining of muscle pain swarm the nation's clinics, suspecting one thing: the flu. An estimated 12 million to 16 million people in Japan come down with the flu every year. When flu season is in full swing, it ...
A frog in south India excretes a mucus from its skin that could one day help people fight off certain types of flu viruses, researchers said Tuesday. The colorful, tennis ball-sized frog is known as Hydrophylax bahuvistara, said the report in the journal Immunity. "Different frogs ...
Government officials and scientists are moving to update countermeasures for a possible influenza pandemic after this winter's global spread of avian flu. Researchers plan to review the government's death toll estimate from a possible flu pandemic that was drawn up more than a decade ago ...
Japan sees a surge of 400,000 influenza cases in just one week as patients rush to get doctor’s notes instead of resting.
Sales of humidifiers are on the increase in Japan, where the influenza season has begun earlier than usual, prompting makers to increase production. According to the Japanese operations of global market research company GfK, sales of humidifiers in November in Japan increased by more than ...
Japanese researchers have recently begun a clinical study of the flu drug Avigan to see if it can cure a tick-transmitted infectious disease that has a relatively high fatality rate and no effective treatment. Avigan, developed by a unit of Tokyo-based Fujifilm Holdings Corp., is ...
Emperor Akihito has been diagnosed as having contracted influenza, the Imperial Household Agency said Monday. With symptoms including a fever of 37 to 38 degrees, sore throat and mild cough, the Emperor, 82, plans to rest at his residence in the Imperial Palace in central ...
Flu season appears to be in full swing, with an estimated 1.64 million people across Japan coming down with the symptoms in the week through Feb. 7, the health ministry said. Almost 6,000 day care centers and elementary and junior high schools shut down or ...
If you think that etiquette is limited to which fork to use, think again. Etiquette is simply kindness with a heavy helping of common sense. That's why etiquette helps get things done, and it responds to what's going on in the world at any ...
Flu is widespread in 43 U.S. states, up from 36 states in the prior week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Monday. Six children died from the flu during the last full week in December, bringing the total flu deaths to ...
This year's flu season could be especially severe, U.S. health authorities warned Thursday, adding that genetic mutations mean the vaccine won't be as effective against some of the most prevalent flu strains. So far this season, most flu patients in the United States have contracted ...
The influenza season officially begins, with the average number of patients per clinic topping the infectious disease center's weekly threshold.
