When winter weather arrives, it often brings with it the latest version of the flu. The following articles discuss influenza, and ways to avoid spreading and catching it this winter.

Flu Overview, Part 1
The flu is the popular name given to the influenza disease, an infectious condition that can afflict humans, birds and mammals alike. Actually...

Flu Overview, Part 2
Another characteristic of the flu is that it can spread a lot easier than most diseases and it often produces world epidemics, with travelers...

Flu Shots vs. Precaution
The flu usually starts showing itself in late October in most regions and carries on until the spring. In fact, some strains will show themselves again in...

How to Treat Flu
Although the flu is a rather common disease, its treatment and prevention are extremely hard, for two reasons. Firstly, because its symptoms are relatively...

Being Pregnant with the Flu
Whenever winter comes around, the threat of the flu becomes very real. The lowered body resistance stemming from the chilly temperature...

Avoiding the Flu in the Workplace
The flu is an annoying illness that can spread quickly and cause major productivity losses in the workplace. To that end, it is important to know...

A New Flu Pandemic Threat - the H5N1 Virus
Flu pandemics occur on a relatively predictable ratio of three per century, as the flu virus has "pattern cycles" which last around 40 years. For that...

All about Flu Vaccines
We all know the troubles that the flu can bring to your household. The symptoms that the virus brings about, from coughing and wheezing...

All about Tamiflu
Influenza is a virus that many of us do not consider a threat. Indeed, the common flu tends to manifest itself in most of the population, and for...

Flu Facts
The influenza virus is one that strikes regularly and occurs often in people of all ages, races, and creeds. In this article, we will help to give you a little...

Flu FAQ
The flu remains a constant thorn in our modern civilization's side, as medicine and science have struggled for centuries to put an end to it for good, but have...

Natural Cold Cures
The common cold is an infection that invades your nose and throat and is caused by a commonly found virus. Most people catch between two and four colds a year, depending upon the level of their immune system and how well they're able to take care...

What is the Flu?
In order to understand what the flu does, you first have to learn about the differences between bacteria and viruses. Both of these minute germs, bacteria and viruses, are able to invade the body and cause specific types of symptoms based on the reaction the body...

What is the Swine Flu?
The flu is a viral infection that is caused by a specific virus type - influenza...

What Happens During a Cold
While the flu is caused by influenza virus the common cold is caused by another virus, the rhinovirus. Symptoms often include feeling bad, headache, stuffy nose, sore throat, itchy eyes, coughing and sometimes a low grade fever. The rhinovirus is spread in the same...

Treatment for Stomach Flu
Although it sometimes carries a similar name, the stomach flu is not caused by the same germs as the flu and doesn't cause the same symptoms. The medical term for the condition is actually gastroenteritis, which essentially means an inflammation or irritation of the gastro-intestinal...

Mexican Flu
In early 2009 an outbreak of flu virus in Mexico City sent the media and the local population into a panic over the possibility that a new pandemic flu virus may be emerging within the country. The virus was identified as what was then called the swine flu and has since...

The Difference between Stomach flu and the other Flu
Do you know the difference between the flu and the stomach flu...

Tamiflu
Tamiflu is a medication that's been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of influenza virus which causes seasonal flu...

Herbal Remedies for the Flu
Between 1918 and 1919 over 20 million people died from the influenza virus...

Alternative Cures for the Flu
There are hundreds of different cold and flu viruses, most of them routinely alter themselves on an annual basis in response to their own environment. This means that any traditional medical cure is not possible. This is because of the way in which current antibiotics and medications...