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Update on children/travel/flu

January 20, 2013 by kidstra

You need not go traveling to catch the flu – but it does help. Weekends visiting out-of-town relatives, skiing holidays, cruises, and air travel, for example, place your kids in close contact with people from different localities near and far. In flu season (December through March), there is a fair chance that someone in the […]

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Family Travel/H1N1 Swine Flu

November 9, 2009 by sonicblum

Quarantines* and other restrictions on international travel do little to limit the spread of disease, in this case, H1N1flu, when the disease already exists in most countries, says World Health Organization. Nevertheless, public health authorities in some countries, mostly in the Middle East and Asia, are monitoring arriving travelers for symptoms suggestive of H1N1 and […]

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Children/H1N1 Influenza

September 9, 2009 by sonicblum

The more you know about H1N1 (swine) influenza the better you can protect your children from the disease and treat them effectively should they become ill. Even the experts do not have all the answers. This is a new virus, one never seen before. Ongoing worldwide surveillance indicates that H1N1 is presently (mid September) less […]

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