When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.
Nate Mendel
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Flu can be serious, and it kills tens of thousands of Americans each year. Vaccination is easier and more convenient than ever, so get yourself and your family protected.
Tom Frieden
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It simply isn't fair for senators to cut to the front of the line when seniors around the country have been forced to wait for hours to get a flu shot.
Dick Durbin
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I partnered with AstraZeneca to help launch the 'Mom Nose Best' campaign, where I provide tips for flu season.
Tia Mowry
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The swine flu is evolution, isn't it? In a way, it's an evolution of flu.
Alan Tudyk
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Swine flu is not an anomaly. We know that swine flu - like the vast majority of new outbreaks - comes from animals. We should be monitoring those animals and the humans that come into contact with them, so we can catch these viruses early, before they infect major cities and spread throughout the world.
Nathan Wolfe
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There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you.
Meg Tilly
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More than 50 million people around the world died during the 1918-1919 flu pandemic. That's why we have epidemiologists all over the world tracking whether new strains of flu emerge.
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The best thing about getting a flu shot is that you never again need to wash your hands. That's how I see it.
Chuck Palahniuk
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I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.
Toby Jones
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The guy was infected with bird flu because he took a sick chicken, slaughtered it and and then ate it.
Thaksin Shinawatra
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Shaking hands is a pretty good way to get yourself sick, not necessarily with Ebola, but with a million other germs that can cause colds and flu.
Faith Salie
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Thimerosal is a mercury-based preservative that was in many American vaccines until 2003. It was removed from many of the pediatric vaccines, but it was put in the flu vaccine, which is now given to 53 million Americans.
Robert Kennedy, Jr.
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What works most effectively for quelling disease outbreaks like Ebola is not quarantining huge populations. What works is focusing on and isolating the sick and those in direct contact with them as they are at highest risk of infection. This strategy worked with SARS, and it worked during the H1N1 flu pandemic.
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Even the pandemic flu of 1918 only killed one to two percent of the people who were infected.
Anthony Fauci
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If I have a gig in the evening, I get 'the doom' at about 5 P.M., when I think I'm getting flu.
Nina Conti
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I read the 'Old Testament' all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read 'The Origin Of Species', hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.
Terry Pratchett
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When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
Barack Obama
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