sir, at the beginning of the 21 st century, the third millennium, the pandemic flu a (h1n1) occurred. between mid march and mid april 2009, a pandemic influenza a virus emerged in mexico. [1] the disease spread very quickly in different parts of the world. it has to be said that the disease infected millions of population in different continents and killed at least 18449 people, [2] but less th...

Influenza is an acute respiratory illness that occurs every year. Detection of Influenza in its earliest stage would reduce the spread of the illness. Sina microblog is a popular microblogging service, provides perfect sources for flu detection due to its real-time nature and large number of users. In this paper we investigate the real-time flu detection problem and describe a Flu model with em...

OBJECTIVES Notwithstanding decades of efforts to increase the uptake of seasonal influenza (flu) vaccination among European healthcare workers (HCWs), the immunisation rates are still unsatisfactory. In order to understand the reasons for the low adherence to flu vaccination, a study was carried out among HCWs of two healthcare organisations in Liguria, a region in northwest Italy. METHODS A ...