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In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have fallen sick are quarantined into a separate ward to keep the plague at bay. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders, a woman doctor who is a rumored Rebel, and a teenage girl, Bridie, procured by the nuns from their orphanage as an extra set of hands. At first, this Bridie seems unschooled...
65) H1N1 (Swine flu)
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Joseph Bresee, M.D., Chief, CDC Influenza Division's Epidemiology and Prevention Branch, explains the origins, transmission, symptoms, severity, contagiousness of, and treatments for H1N1, or swine flu. Includes CDC's recommendations for antiviral medicines. Covers health behaviors to practice if one becomes ill with swine flu, and emergency warning signs in children and in adults that require urgent medical attention.
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Dr. Joe Bresee offers suggestions for what to do when you have the flu. In a play on the old saying, "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning." Dr. Bresee explains that taking three may save your life. A Production of the CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
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In spring of 1918, World War I was underway, and troops at Fort Riley, Kansas, found themselves felled by influenza. By the summer of 1918, the second wave struck as a highly contagious and lethal epidemic and within weeks exploded into a pandemic, an illness that travels rapidly from one continent to another. It would impact the course of the war, and kill many millions more soldiers than warfare itself. Of all diseases, the 1918 flu was by far the...
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"Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to bullshit, Jean is not your usual grandma. She's never been good at getting on with other humans, apart from her beloved granddaughter, Kimberly. Instead, she surrounds herself with animals, working as a guide in an outback wildlife park. And although Jean talks to all her charges, she has a particular soft spot for a young dingo called Sue. As disturbing...
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"BACKGROUND: In September, 2009, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP) convened a Pediatric Healthcare Response to Pandemic H1N1 Influenza Stakeholder Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Participants in the meeting divided into working groups to address pediatric related topics and issues. One group was tasked with identifying and prioritizing hospital issues related to pediatric care during...