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The term flu is short for influenza. The term comes from the Italian for "influence". Meaning that some bad air or bad water influenced the event.
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What does Swine Flu stand for?
It stands for Influenza A H1N1.
What does the H1M1 stand for?
The disease developed from Influenza known as Swine Flu (also Schwein) Edit: It is called H1N1, not H1M1.
Are the flu and Swine Flu the same?
No, Swine Flu is just one strain of the many flu viruses. Flu is an abbreviation for influenza. So Swine Flu is a type of flu, but all flu is not the swine flu, there are other kinds.
What types of flu create the Swine Flu?
A mixture of the standard Human Flu, Bird Flu and Pig Flu. This creates a new strain of flu called swine flu (Influenza A H1 N1).
Is the Swine Flu the same as the tami flu?
Swine flu is a flu very similar to the regular flu. Tamiflu is a medicine that you take when you have swine flu or other types of influenza.
Can the flu cause neck pain and dizziness?
From personal experience, when sick with a cold or flu, I'm most of the time laying down. When I first stand up I mayexperience dizziness. And then it calms down, but other times it doesn't- generally I would not want to stand up for too long when sick.I would say dizziness lasts as long as you are in the build up or peak of your flu, once you start feeling better it should go away.
Which has worst side effects the flu or the flu vaccine?
The flu. One of the side affects of flu can be death.
What is the plural for flu?
flu
How do you spell flu?
That is the correct spelling of "flu" (the flu, viral influenza).
What are the different types of bird flu?
Swine Flu
What doe N1 stand for?
H1N1 describes the class of viruses that have certain proteins on their outer envelope. Swine Flu fits into this class of proteins.
What is the origin of the name swine lu?
Swine flu was first discovered in people working with pigs. Flu is a disease that is transmitted in various forms among people, pigs, and birds. Sometimes bird flu is transmitted to pigs, and sometime pig flu is transmitted to people. What actually happens is that a pig has pig flu and catches bird flu. A chromosome from the bird flu gets mixed with the pig flu and changes it to a different type of flu. Then a person with human flu catches pig flu. A chromosome with pig and perhaps bird flu mixes with the human flu. The flu is mainly human flu but contains pig and bird flu chromosomes. It got the name swine flu because people working with pigs caught it first. Because it has the pig and bird chromosomes, people with resistance to human flu, have less resistance to swine flu.
