Officials with the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) announced yesterday, September 21, that last fly season saw 130.9 million Americans get a flu shot. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urge all citizens to do the same for the upcoming flu season.
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22 September 2011
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For many decades, researchers have tried to answer a very straightforward question – why is it that the flu strikes and causes outbreaks like clockwork? A variety of answers have been proposed to solve this riddle, but a new research reveals that the answer may be simpler than anyone thought.Some of the previou... |
30 December 2010
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A new research carried out by scientists at the National Institutes of Health, served as foundation for a computer model that projects the severity of this year's flu season, and that could be used in the planning process for seasonal influenza.This statistical model predicts how many people will get sick from s... |
9 December 2010
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This natural weakness that babies born in autumn display to asthma is apparently caused by the fact that they are only 3 to 4 months old during the peak of the flu and cold season, which starts in late October. In an underdeveloped immune system, such as that of newborns, this disease can cause proneness to this seve... |
21 November 2008
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Misconceptions and words of mouth may cause thousands of avoidable flu cases this season, as a new survey shows that approximately 48 percent of US citizens do not want to get the inexpensive flu vaccine this year, due to either bizarre reasons or the fact that they want to build up their immune defenses naturally. H... |
18 November 2008
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