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Does Climate Change Mean Worse Flu Seasons?
2013-02-04 13:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
HealthDay: Mild winters where few people catch the flu tend to be followed by serious flu outbreaks the next year, a new study finds, suggesting that global warming could mean harsher flu seasons ahead. That, at least, is the theory. The study, which appeared Jan. 28 in the journal PLoS Currents: Influenza, shows a correlation between warm U.S. winters and more flu misery the following winter. "But correlation doesn't mean causation," said lead researcher Sherry Towers, a research professor at Arizona State...
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More Severe Flu Seasons Predicted Due to Climate Change
2013-01-28 21:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: The American public can expect to add earlier and more severe flu seasons to the fallout from climate change, according to a research study published online Jan. 28 in PLOS Currents: Influenza. A team of scientists led by Sherry Towers, research professor in the Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center at Arizona State University, studied waves of influenza and climate patterns in the U.S. from the 1997-1998 season to the present. The team's analysis, which used Centers for...
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Season's Stomach Bug A New Strain Of Norovirus
2013-01-26 12:03:09| Biotech - Topix.net
A new strain of the common intestinal bug called norovirus has been spreading misery across the country.
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