So today, we get our flu vaccines from ...

Please note it's a museum specimen, but there's no chance you'll get the avian flu.

You get swine flu in Mexico, it's a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later.

One is quasi active, like the flu example I gave, where we get some people to nominate their friends and then passively monitor their friends do they have the flu, or not? and then get warning.

We tried it against flu A viruses H1N1, H3N2 as well as flu B viruses.

That's the sound of genetic mutations of the avian flu becoming a deadly human flu.

Think of cancer, of bird flu, swine flu, SARS.

Just look at pandemics swine flu, bird flu, H1N1.

So this would be a technique whereby we could get more than a month and a half warning about a flu epidemic in a particular population.

Bird flu.

Flu epidemic.

I've got a touch of the flu.

Just a strong case of the flu.

As variable as flu is, HIV makes flu look like the Rock of Gibraltar.

So let's take a look at the flu virus.

Swine Flu for Grownups

I caught the flu.

And the Avian Flu is also not a good idea.

So this, swine flu pink.

Who Pays for Bird Flu?

Special event on Avian flu

And that most people who die of regular flu which in regular flu years is about 360,000 people worldwide, most of them senior citizens and they die not of the flu but because the flu gives an assault to their immune system.

Pandemic bird flu early detection, early response. It is a litany.

The swine flu virus, at the moment, is a symmetrical object.

No longer must flu have to kill half a million people a year.

I was vaccinated against the flu.

My name's Pitt. Melrose has flu.

We really could think of flu, then, as just a bad cold.

Luckily, this year's flu was relatively mild.

Well, you could develop flu like symptoms.

And now comes the Spanish flu also.

I bet I'm getting the Asiatic flu.

So a nice example of this came from last year and swine flu.

When swine flu first appeared, the initial news caused a lot of overreaction.

Mrs. Van Hopper's cold's turned into flu, so she's got a trained nurse.

9. Don t neglect the teachable moment. In the developing world, swine flu (so far) is much less serious than many endemic health threats, and the main risk communication goal should be to help people get through their adjustment reaction, take precautions that are feasible, and refocus on other priorities. But in the developed world, swine flu has two long lasting lessons to teach (1) Flu is a bigger deal than many people imagine.

Seth Berkley HIV and flu the vaccine strategy

Laurie Garrett on lessons from the 1918 flu

This is not your normal garden variety flu.

Special event on the theme of Avian flu

So that's why every year you can catch a slightly different strain of flu.

Audience member One of the things I've heard is that the real death cause when you get a flu is the associated pneumonia, and that a pneumonia vaccine may offer you 50 percent better chance of survival.

We want to pretend that Mexico has the flu.

It was before the avian flu had reached Europe.

We all caught flu, and so did the teacher.