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Common cold and influenza (flu) give many of the same symptoms, and they are often mistaken for each other. However, a flu can develop serious complications, and the chance for this occurring increases if the flu is not handled properly. Therefore it is important to distinguish between these two diseases both by your children and by yourselves.

The Global Health Research Forum believes that the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of the virus could be with us for another decade and the possibility of this virus mutating into one which can be transferred between humans is still highly likely.It is estimated that around 750,000 people in the UK could die in a pandemic. The Government has arranged to stockpile around 14 million courses of the anti-viral drug Tamiflu which is effective in preventing the spread of influenza or reducing the symptoms once contracted.