Reading Time: 3 minutes Risk of transmission to people and pets is very low unless you’re regularly in contact with birds
Tag: Influenza
U of A’s Butterdome to serve as AHS alternate care centre
Reading Time: 2 minutes Athletic facility could provide space for at least 100 beds during COVID-19 pandemic if needed
Some vaccines should be mandatory but not COVID-19: expert
Reading Time: 3 minutes U of A health law professor Ubaka Ogbogu advises that policy-makers focus on clear information and ensuring equitable access to vaccines
Twenty per cent hike in flu vaccinations ambitious but attainable
Reading Time: 4 minutes U of A professor says COVID-19 crisis has provided much-needed public education in how vaccines can prevent deadly viruses
Sugar molecules in lungs linked with risk of death from influenza
Reading Time: 4 minutes New research by leading glycomics expert points to new drug targets that could help reduce death rates and prevent future flu pandemics
Flu deaths rise when cities get pro sports teams: study
Reading Time: 4 minutes New research has implications for reopening arenas to fans during COVID-19 pandemic
Our pandemic response seems like a guessing game
Reading Time: 6 minutes From suspect modelling to poor stockpiling to a lack of perspective on historic events, we failed to be ready for COVID-19
Past becomes present for history grad who studied Spanish flu
Reading Time: 4 minutes Why the COVID-19 pandemic feels familiar to Suzanna Wagner, who wrote her thesis on Canadian nurses in the First World War
Use science, not speculation, to save seniors and businesses
Reading Time: 4 minutes Locking down society, and business, makes no sense in the battle against COVID-19. It’s time to take a more measured approach
COVID-19’s elder virus brother, the Spanish flu
Reading Time: 3 minutes An estimated 500 million people contracted the Spanish flu, and the death toll was between 17 million and 50 million