including influenza , which we don't talk about, which is part of our life on a daily basis and we don't even discuss it.
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There's influenza , again, from the last slide.
These are actually the influenza spikes right here.
One example is avian influenza .
So avian influenza normally lives in wild waterfowl, like ducks and goose and stuff.
Flu is the remnant of the Spanish influenza if you remember, which hit the world 100 years ago.
Over 200 million people contracted the influenza .
And now let's look at influenza .
And my bias is in the influenza and infectious disease realm, but you can think about this in many other domains and connected devices--
is totally unfounded in anything scientific or Ebola or influenza , if you come into contact with it--
And this goes back to 2016 and was a study looking at vaccination against the influenza H1N1
But anyway, this is one type of influenza virus.
For example, if you vaccinate someone for influenza and they've been sleep deprived, their response to the vaccine is not as vigorous when they have
Even this year I think the US has reported some 60,000 deaths due to common influenza .
I suspect it might exist in a way that-- it's obviously a very different bug to influenza , but the way that we know that that's part of our lives
But you go forward a century, and pneumonia, influenza -- they make headlines now when a new infection comes along.
We've had Yersinia pestis, which caused the Plague, influenza , which causes influenza pandemics, Variola which causes
And it's worth noting that that second doubling happened during the same time frame as both world wars and a major influenza pandemic across the entire planet, which
So, dramatic effect here, yet influenza , right: we can give vaccines, we have antibiotics, fantastic.
Yeah, I mean, you know, George W. Bush back in 2004, read the book "The Great Influenza ," John Barry's book.
diseases like COVID, like Zika, Ebola, influenza .
In 1918, right after World War I, there was an absolutely horrific influenza outbreak
But again, in the back end, we're collecting all this incredible granular geographic data about health status that can help feed our surveillance of influenza .
influenza pneumonia.
One of the big ones relates to how Santa's travel habits affect the spread of influenza .
We've had Ebola in West Africa, where it hadn't been seen before, novel kinds of avian influenzas that infect birds and also some of them