Flu shots are made using inactivated (killed) flu viruses, so you cannot get the flu from a flu shot.
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People always say, 'well, the flu, you know, the flu does it, the flu does that.
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Flu is so common that not all flu cases are reported, and flu is not always listed on death certificates.
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The flu vaccine exposes your immune system to something very similar to the flu virus you might encounter during flu season.
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The misconception comes on top of so many others around the flu shot -- for example, the flu shot causing the flu.
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GUPTA: You can't get the flu from the flu shot.
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And no, the flu shot cannot give you the flu.
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That's exactly what H5N1 avian flu, or bird flu, did.
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During the 2013 flu season, Google Flu Trends failed spectacularly.
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Flu season is coming and flu shot season is here.
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Read more:The most common flu symptomsYes, the flu is contagious.
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Flu vaccine Can the flu shot prevent a heart attack?
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Flu vaccine Got the flu shot but still got sick?
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Last year, flu killed 185 children, the highest number of pediatric flu deaths in a regular flu season, according to the CDC.
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Some of the clients that we work with will have an onsite flu clinic for people to get flu shots during flu season.
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The wars the C.D.C. fights against threats like Zika, Ebola, SARS and influenza (bird flu, swine flu and seasonal flu) are the same.
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The flu shot does not, and cannot, give you the flu.
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Two women wearing flu masks during the flu epidemic, dated 1929.
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Getting the flu is not better than getting the flu shot.
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So does the flu shot do anything to prevent the flu?
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Yes, you can still get the flu after a flu shot.
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Bird flu, swine flu, SARS, Ebola all hit during those years.
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Like, in English we'd say flu virus, not the virus flu.
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In a flu pandemic, a new strain of flu virus emerges.
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Deadly flu season The flu season has slammed California so far.
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When most people hear "flu," they typically think of seasonal flu.
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It's flu season not because the flu just magically becomes more powerful; it's flu season because we're brought into close contact with one another.
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Fauci is spearheading an effort to develop a universal flu vaccine that would theoretically cover every strain of the flu over multiple flu seasons.
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As both Shoo the Flu and Flu Lab count as private companies, the full extent of Page&aposs anti-flu spending is not clear.
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During the 2012-13 flu season, for example, when the shot was 49 percent effective (just like this year), it prevented 5.6 million flu illnesses, 2.7 million flu-related medical visits, and about 61,500 flu-related hospitalizations.
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A woman wears a flu mask during the Spanish flu epidemic Feb.
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The best way to prevent flu is with the seasonal flu vaccine.
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Yes, we know the flu is bad—no one likes the flu.
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An early flu shot is better than no flu shot at all.
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Flu seasons came and went, while I remained unvaccinated and flu-free.
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But don't flu shots give you a mini version of the flu?
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Get your flu shot — that will help protect you from the flu.
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Related stories about the flu:How to prevent the flu, according to doctorsWhen the flu is most contagiousHow long the flu should last and when you should see a doctorWhy flu season spikes in the fall and winterThe flu vaccine is not 100% effective but you should still get it every year
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The flu vaccine contains several viral strainsNo matter the year, the flu vaccine is designed to protect against three to four flu viruses in circulation.
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Google Flu Trends for instance, looked to be a triumph of big data prescience, tracking flu outbreaks based on trends in flu-related search terms.
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Speaking of those flu-shot reactions: If you do notice flu-like symptoms after getting the shot, it's not because the vaccine gave you the flu.
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The flu shot also prevents the spread of flu to others — including vulnerable people who are more likely to be hospitalized or die from the flu.
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A flu shot can protect you against getting the flu but if you do get the flu, it can help prevent influenza-related complications like pneumonia.
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At least 22013 different universal flu vaccine candidates are being developed right now, but a flu season without the flu is still a long way away.
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But, as with most flu medications, the drug loses effectiveness as the flu builds up a resistance, and Tamiflu does not cure the flu very quickly.
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Universal flu vaccine: Gates says a universal flu vaccine is needed to prevent another outbreak like the Flu of 1918, which killed 50 million people worldwide.
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What a flu vaccine can do for your child In the last flu season, 179 children died, while thousands more were hospitalized with flu-related illness.
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So, is this the worst flu season since the 2009 swine flu pandemic?
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Flu causes more flu, colds cause more colds, and violence causes more violence.
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Pneumonia often follows the flu, so getting a yearly flu vaccination is key.
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You can still get the flu even if you've had a flu shot.
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Their doctors thought they had the flu, but the flu tests were negative.
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The flu is really contagious, but the flu doesn't kill as many people.
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During the flu pandemic of 1918, Philadelphia threw a parade despite the flu.
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Researchers determines how many have flu and how many had a flu shot.
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But keep in mind, the 2000 flu was really the 225-1919 flu.
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But keep in mind, the 2000 flu was really the 225-873 flu.
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That said, during the more moderate 2016-17 flu season, when the flu vaccine was estimated to be 40% overall effective, flu vaccines prevented an estimated 5.3 million flu-related illnesses and 2.6 million medical visits, according to the CDC.
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Seven kids died from the flu in the first week of the year, and flu-related hospitalizations haven't been this high since the 2014-15 flu season.
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After combining data from all flu seasons, the researchers found that vaccine effectiveness against any type of flu virus was 51% for the inactivated flu shot vs.
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Shoo the Flu's director is also the CEO of Flu Lab, and TechCrunch reported that Shoo the Flu will soon move under the umbrella of Flu Lab.
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Bird flu symptoms are like those of the regular flu, fever, coughing, sore throat.
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And improve your odds of avoiding the flu altogether by getting a flu vaccine.
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Thirty states have reported widespread flu activity, although flu is present in every state.
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You can't get the flu from the flu shot, but there are side effects
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Getting a seasonal flu vaccine is the most effective way to prevent the flu.
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That "1918 pandemic" ends with "FLU," and the answer is the SPANISH FLU. 2D.
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The idea works a bit like Google Flu Trends, which tries to spot influenza outbreaks early by identifying clusters of people searching for flu symptoms or flu remedies.
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Yes, you can get the flu when it's not flu seasonOnce the weather warms up and the spring flowers start to bloom, flu activity tends to drop off.
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The flu vaccine is not 100% effectiveThe flu vaccine is not 100% effective, so there's still a chance you can get the flu even after you've been vaccinated.
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Related stories about the flu:How to prevent the flu, according to doctorsWhen the flu is most contagiousHow long the flu should last and when you should see a doctorThe flu vaccine is not 100% effective but you should still get it every year
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"[Someone] may not have seen flu yet in their community, but they may well see flu this season," said Dr. Brendan Flannery, an epidemiologist in the CDC's flu division.
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Getting your flu shot not only decreases the likelihood you will get or be hospitalized from the flu but preventing the flu can support our response to COVID-19.
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The free flu shots are offered through a group called Shoo The Flu, which started funding flu shots for both elementary and kindergarten through eighth grade schools in 2014.
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The flu is caused by influenza A and B viruses, which circulate during flu season.
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He is the second child to die from the flu in Colorado this flu season.
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Even so, Spanish flu was exceptionally deadly—about 25 times more so than seasonal flu.
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Flu shots are available not only at doctors' offices but also at some pharmacies. Flu.
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A universal flu vaccine discovery, for example, would obviate the need for annual flu jabs.
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But there's one thing the flu shot can't do: safeguard you from the flu immediately.
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Two flu seasons after that last flu shot, I took an extremely powerful preventative measure.
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Among adults, flu deaths are estimated based on pneumonia and other illnesses related to flu.
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For adults, flu deaths are estimated based on pneumonia and other illnesses related to flu.
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Here are the primary ways you can still get the flu after a flu vaccine.
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Imagine if we did not have the flu vaccine, the flu would be a pandemic.
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She also recommends annual flu shots to attempt to prevent flu or reduce its severity.
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The 1918 flu, which was known as the Spanish flu, didn't actually originate in Spain.
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Flu Trends failed spectacularly during the 2013 flu season and Google quietly killed the project.
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Q. Does the flu vaccine become less effective over the course of the flu season?
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The 1918 flu pandemic shows why officials must tell the truth Remember the Spanish Flu?
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The director of Shoo the Flu, Casey Wright, is also the CEO of Flu Lab.
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Flu kills children every year; last year, 143 children lost their lives to the flu.
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Flu preparedness never made the front burner — and now flu is here with a vengeance.
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Last year's flu season For the 2018-2019 US flu season, which started October 1, 2018, and ended May 4, preliminary numbers from the CDC estimate there were nearly 42.9 million cases of flu, up to 647,000 hospitalizations and up to 61,200 flu deaths.
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While swine flu cases comprise only one-third of all flu infections this season, the virus has proven particularly deadly, with 69 percent of all flu deaths attributed to H1N1.
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Deaths due to flu A total of 34 children have died of flu-related causes this season, and an additional 1,565 death certificates list flu as the cause of death.
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For example, the 2019 flu vaccine contains strains of H1N1 and H3N2 — which both cause flu type A — and two flu type B strains, called B/Victoria and B/Yamagata.
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Ask Well Immunity to the flu virus may wane over the course of the flu season, so you don't want to get a flu shot too early, or too late.
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Flu symptom rates are close to those seen in the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic and for the past few weeks the whole country has been experiencing the flu, she said.
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Last year's flu season was devastating, with several children and adults dying from flu-related illnesses.
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The best way to protect yourself against the flu is by getting the seasonal flu vaccine.
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Right now, seasonal flu vaccines target ice cream cone-shaped proteins studding the flu virus's coat.
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Researchers looked at flu spread among 84 people in Hong Kong during the 2009 flu season.
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Flu jabs are currently produced from chicken eggs based on the previous flu season's viral strains.
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Despite getting the flu vaccine every year, I have had the flu twice as a student.
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"I mean, people always say, well, the flu does this, the flu does that," Fauci said.
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In the meantime, some flu shot manufacturers have taken smaller steps toward a better flu shot.
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North Korea's aggressive seasonal flu North Korea is facing a potentially deadly strain of seasonal flu.
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Adrian, for example, had not received a flu shot when he was struck with the flu.
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The flu season is in its 12th week of high activity, hitting 48 states, with emergency room and doctor office visits for flu symptoms now matching the pandemic 2009 flu season.
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"A flu shot will not always prevent you from getting flu, but most will have a less severe course of flu than if they hadn't had the shot," Dr. Morens said.
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In past flu seasons, between 80 and 85 percent of children who have died from the flu had not gotten a flu vaccine that season, the agency said in an email.
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While it helps to combat symptoms of the flu, it is not a substitute for the annual flu vaccine, which is designed to prevent people from catching the flu, but also lessens the intensity of flu in those who do contract the virus after getting the vaccine.
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The C.D.C. estimated that in the 2015-2016 flu season, the flu shot prevented more than five million cases of the flu, about 2.5 million medical visits and more than 22011,22001 hospitalizations.
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The actual figure for the 1990 flu season was 33,000, and in the past decade, the flu has killed an estimated 12,000 to 61,000 people each flu season in the United States.
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When it comes to the conventional flu shot, the CDC makes no "preferential recommendation" between the vaccine that protects against three flu strains and the vaccine that protects against four flu strains.
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The CDC began its current hospital flu surveillance program during the 2009-2010 H1N1 swine flu pandemic.
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That doesn't include the 2009-10 flu year, when H1N1 swine flu was a brand new strain.
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In the past we had so many threats of epidemics, bird flu, chicken flu and nothing happened.
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Go deeper: After deadly season, surgeon general pushes flu vaccinations The worst flu season in eight years
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A child in Florida who died of flu earlier this season had not received a flu vaccination.
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While the flu season is halfway over, the CDC is still encouraging people to get flu shots.
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Contrary to popular belief, the flu vaccine does not give you a minor version of the flu.
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Some flu seasons are worse than others — but facilities are anticipating flu cases, and prepare for them.
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Mike, 210, IT worker in Seattle I honestly thought I had the flu, a really bad flu.
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There hadn't been a global flu outbreak in 25 years, not since the Russian flu of 1891.
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Next January will begin the centenary of the 22014-22015 pandemic swine flu known as Spanish flu.
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The best way to prevent complications of the flu is to get your child a flu shot.
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Page also has a second firm, Flu Lab, which funds research aimed at eradicating the flu altogether.
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H1N1 -- a strain of flu responsible for the 2009 flu pandemic has now become a seasonal virus.
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Seasonal flu occurs because of the persistence of current strains or recently circulating strains of the flu.
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It's still flu season, and high levels of flu activity aren't expected to die down anytime soon.
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Flu season officially starts in October, but you shouldn't wait until then to get your flu vaccine.
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Now if they could just get the flu shot to actually stop us from getting the flu.
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This flu season, 28 children have died from flu-related complications so far, and only three of the 22 who died from flu and were eligible for the vaccine had been fully vaccinated.
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I don't believe in the flu vaccine: This strikes me as the most fair critique of the flu vaccine — some of the time, you will get the flu even after getting the vaccine.
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Flu pandemics occurred periodically during the twentieth century, most notably the 1957 Asian flu, the 1968 Hong Kong Flu, and the 2003 SARS outbreak, but they had little effect on the United States.
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A. Yes, immunity to the flu virus may wane over the course of the flu season, so you don't want to get your flu shot too early, such as in the summer months.
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Fauci said it could take less time -- but still many years -- to develop a semi-universal flu shot, which would protect against not all flu viruses, but rather a group of flu viruses.
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One study found it to be 46% effective against the flu, compared to 65% for the flu shot.
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Pandemic flu strains have been deadlier, however, particularly the 22017 Spanish flu, which killed an estimated 22018,000 Americans.
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Flu season is hitting its peak in the U.S. People can catch the flu at anytime of year.
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The four year old is the second child in Colorado to die from the flu this flu season.
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Most flu shots cover four flu viruses - two influenza A viruses - H3N2 and H1N1 - and two B viruses.
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Australia's deadly flu season sparked concern that the US flu season would be equally bad if not worse.
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Like the flu, the game spread amongst the show's writers, and like the flu, it crated work responsibilities.
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Flu deaths are concentrated among those 65 years and older — 40.7 people per million die from the flu.
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Bigger cities, alternatively, could enhance flu surveillance—keeping a watch for those early and late season flu outbreaks.
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Read This Next: 3 Out of 4 Kids Who Died From the Flu Didn't Get a Flu Shot
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The last big pandemic flu — the H1N1 virus nicknamed the Spanish flu — killed 2843 million people in 1918.
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During the 85033-2016 flu season, the CDC estimated that 310,000 people were hospitalized for flu-related illness.
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During the sixth week of the flu season, 22 flu-associated pediatric deaths were reported to the CDC.
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In the 2017-2018 flu season, 185 children and teens died of the flu, according to the CDC.
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Flu shots contain either inactivated verses or no viruses at all, meaning they can't cause the flu illness.
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Pregnant women should plan to get their flu shot at the start of the flu season in October.
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How likely is it that you will catch the flu on a fully packed airplane during flu season?
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Ms. Payton had the H1N1 flu, also known as the swine flu, and encephalitis, according to her family.
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A flu vaccine offers the best defense against getting flu and spreading it to others, the CDC said.
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And authorities insisted the cause was neither SARS, nor similar viruses like the flu, avian flu, or MERS.
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Doctors diagnosed the flu and "ragged on my brother that she hadn't had a flu shot," Roberts said.
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Flu cases and hospitalizations because of the flu have also risen sharply since the season began in October.
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This flu season is now more than 11 weeks old, and the average flu season lasts 16 weeks.
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There were 45 million cases of the flu and 61,000 flu-related deaths last year alone, CDC reported.
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In both of the previous two flu seasons, the flu vaccine performed poorly against the nasty predominant virus.
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Another of his companies, Flu Lab, is supporting multi-million dollar efforts to develop a universal flu vaccine.
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When an autopsy came back showing Jude had died of the flu, Promoli started her flu prevention campaign.
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She's continued with her flu shot campaign, persuading Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to publicize his flu shot.
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The flu vaccine has been our main strategy for warding off seasonal flu for more than 60 years.
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There have been at least 2.6 million flu illnesses and 23,000 flu-related hospitalizations, according to the analysis.
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And that the flu shot this year is a poor match for the deadly flu now in circulation.
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The good news is that getting the flu shot does reduce the chance that flu will kill you.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Twenty-five people have died from swine flu in Ukraine since the start of the flu season, Tetyana Dykhanovska, the director of the state flu center, told Reuters by phone on Thursday.
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Here's when you're most likely to spread the virusYou can't get the flu from the flu shot, but there are side effectsHow long the flu should last and when you should see a doctor
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Potential complications include:Easily treated flu complications:sinus infectionear infectioncroup (common in children)bronchiolitis (common in children)Potentially life-threatening flu complications:pneumoniaheart problemsencephalitismeningitissepsismulti-organ failureThe flu also runs the risk of making underlying medical issues worse.
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Serese Marotta lost her 5-year-old son, Joseph, to the flu in 2009, and is now chief operating officer of Families Fighting Flu, a group that encourages flu awareness and prevention, including vaccination.
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One group received a flu vaccine via the patch, administered by a health care worker; another received a flu vaccine via a traditional flu shot; another group received a placebo microneedle patch, administered by a health care worker; the fourth group used the patch to self-administer a flu vaccine.
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The nasal flu vaccine spray, preferred by millions of anxious parents looking for a needle-free way to get their children immunized against the flu, as well as by adults who would rather not get a flu shot, is ineffective and should not be used in the upcoming flu season.
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You can see in red in the chart below the percentage of outpatient hospital visits for flu or flu-like illness last year and in early 2018: The bad news is that this flu season is an absolute outlier among recent years for people turning up in hospital for flu.
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In the US, the CDC recommended against the available needleless flu vaccine option, FluMist nasal spray, during the 2016-17 flu season because it was found to be less effective than the traditional flu shot.
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No one wants to get the flu, but every year, starting around October, the number of seasonal influenza cases begin to climb in the US.Yes, the flu is contagiousThe flu is caused by a virus.
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We've had a horrific 2018 flu season, where of the 200 children who died from flu, the vast majority were not vaccinated despite the recommendation that all children over 503 months get their flu vaccine.
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The flu infects millions of people every year and kills thousands During the 2018-19 flu season, about 35 million people in the US contracted the flu and about 34,000 died, according to the CDC.
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In the US, flu season typically lasts from October to March, with flu activity peaking between December and February.
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Left: A police officer wears a flu mask to protect himself from the outbreak of Spanish flu on Nov.
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And last flu season, less than 60 percent of U.S. kids received a flu vaccine, the poll report notes.
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The Scenario: It's cold and flu season and your dumbass friend didn't get a flu shot back in October.
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Today, we have antivirals to treat the flu and the seasonal flu vaccine to protect people from getting sick.
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Besides keto breath, there's keto flu (flu-like symptoms associated with making the switch to ketosis) and keto rash.
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In recent years, mild flu seasons tend to kill about 12,000 Americans, and severe flu seasons kill about 56,000.
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If you want to get technical, "stomach flu" is actually a misnomer because there are no flu viruses involved.
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If it turns out to be the flu, this could be an early forecast of the flu season ahead.
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Why the current flu crisis is so severe | February 2018 The 2017-103 flu season was a bad one.
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In 933, Google created an artificial intelligence program called Google Flu that used search queries to predict flu outbreaks.
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As many learn the hard way, it is possible to get the flu after you've had a flu shot.
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That's what happened in 22013 with another type of flu -- H21N2813 swine flu -- that took the world by storm.
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It does not affect other flu strains, such as the H3N2 flu and influenza B viruses that also circulate.
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If a bird flu were to break out, public-health officials have a few anti-flu weapons to deploy.
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The best way to prevent the flu is by getting a flu vaccine each year, according to the CDC.
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We made a synthetic flu vaccine, that was the first time we ever stockpiled a flu vaccine in advance.
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Doctors recommend that your best line of defense against the flu each year is to get a flu vaccine.
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How long flu symptoms should lastFor a healthy adult, the typical flu will last between one to two weeks.
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The CDC estimates that there were more than 212,21918 deaths from the flu in the 2018-2019 flu season.
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He said, "This is a flu," though Covid-19 has a fatality rate 10 times greater than the flu.
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Virologist and flu expert Robert G. Webster predicted an upcoming flu pandemic in a book he published in December.
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The flu can mutate and strains can change each year, meaning new vaccines are needed for every flu season.
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The intense 22015 swine flu pandemic, which sent demand for vaccines soaring, was followed by several mild flu years.
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Imperial College has advised the government on its response to previous epidemics, including SARS, avian flu and swine flu.
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More than 28,22015 flu cases have been reported across the state, according to the New York State Flu Tracker.
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Although we're deep into flu season, the CDC says it's still not too late to get a flu shot.
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However, they can catch the flu, "which is why we tell you to get a flu shot," Riley said.
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Upcoming flu season Overall, the effectiveness of the seasonal flu vaccine for last season was estimated to be 40%.
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While the current flu shot keeps millions of people from getting the flu every year, it's far from perfect.
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Among them are at least three children who died of flu-related complications during the 2018-2019 flu season.
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"Flu vaccination is the best way to reduce the risk from flu and its potentially serious complications," he says.
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Lately, mild flu seasons tend to kill about 22,233 Americans, and more severe flu seasons kill up to 254,267.
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Despite the good news, another 17 children under 5 died of flu or flu-related illnesses in the last week, bring the season's death toll to 114 infants, the most in a flu season since 2015.
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Two of the devastating flu pandemics of the 2000th century — the Asian flu of 227 and the Hong Kong flu of 193 — both originated in China and left a trail of about three million deaths worldwide.
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Flu is widespread in 48 states, down from 49 last week, with Oregon reporting less flu activity, the CDC said.
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With flu season continuing, she said, people could still benefit from a flu shot if they haven't already got one.
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The flu vaccine's effectiveness changes every year because the circulating flu strains change — along with the recipe for the shot.
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While flu deaths are uncommon, even children with no underlying medical conditions are still at risk of death from flu.
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Of course, the flu shot isn't perfect, because it's difficult to predict what flu strains will be popular each year.
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Assuming you're older than 8 years old, it turns out you don't need a second flu shot this flu season.
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Thirteen children have died as a result of the flu so far this flu season, the CDC reported on Friday.
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Leading manufacturers of seasonal flu vaccines include Sanofi, GlaxoSmithKline and CSL's Seqirus, which includes the old Novartis flu vaccine business.
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Other leading manufacturers of seasonal flu vaccines include GlaxoSmithKline and CSL's Seqirus, which includes the former Novartis flu vaccine business.
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Sanofi's flu vaccine shipments will be delayed by roughly one month this upcoming flu season, according to the French drugmaker.
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The 2017–2018 flu season killed 80,000 Americans, according to the CDC, making it the deadliest flu outbreak in decades.
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The CDC advises everyone 6 months and older to get a flu shot, as only injectable flu vaccines are recommended.
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"I mean, people always say, well, the flu does this, the flu does that," Fauci said Wednesday during congressional testimony.
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Once we have immunities, like to the flu, we'll be fine with it, just like we are with the flu.
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During the 2018-19 flu season, about 35 million people in the US contracted the flu and about 34,000 died.
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"As along as flu is circulating, people should -- if they have not already -- still get their flu vaccine," she said.
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Late last year, a five-year-old in Texas died of the flu; he had not had a flu shot.
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The survey focused mainly on knowledge about the flu and rates of flu vaccination, both which are also quite dismal.
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He is reportedly funding an initiative called "Shoo the Flu," which offers free flu shots to schoolchildren in Oakland, California.
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"I've covered SARS, MERS, the H5N1 bird flu scare, the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic, Zika, dengue, chikungunya," he said.
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Disease X would have a mortality rate higher than a seasonal flu but would spread as easily as the flu.
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It's true that the flu vaccine is only about 40-60% effective at preventing the flu, according to the CDC.
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Doctors are still seeing a number of patients with flu, but the numbers are declining amid an intense flu season.
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Calls for a universal flu vaccine crescendoed during this year's flu season, one of the most severe on recent record.
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The best way to protect yourself is by getting the seasonal flu vaccine — it's not 100% effective, but it can prevent some strains of flu and lessen the severity of the flu if you do get it.
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One group was treated for the flu with the patch by health care professionals, a second received the traditional needle flu shot, another received a placebo patch treatment, and the fourth administered the flu patch by themselves.
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You can't get the flu from the flu shot, but there are side effectsThe common causes of a runny nose and how to stop itHow long the flu should last and when you should see a doctor
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You can't get the flu from the flu shot, but there are side effectsThe common causes of a runny nose and how to stop itHow long the flu should last and when you should see a doctor
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There have been 21 weeks of elevated flu activity reported in the United States during the 2018-19 flu season, based on data from the weekly flu report released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Schuchat elaborated that the total rate of flu-related hospitalizations so far has now eclipsed the rate seen at the same point during the 2014-15 flu season, which was the most severe flu season in recent history.
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Last flu season, an estimated 80,000 people in the US died from the flu and its complications, according to the CDC.
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The department encourages anyone who has not been vaccinated to get the flu shot, as the flu season is not over.
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They produced a noninfectious flu vaccine that would protect against the very deadly Indonesia H5N1 flu virus in an expedited process.
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"Nasal spray flu vaccine accounts for about one-third of all flu vaccines given to children," CDC said in a statement.
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Meteorologists looked at past outbreaks, including SARS in 93, the 1918 Spanish Flu and U.S. flu data over the last decade.
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As a participant in the Fight the Flu Foundation's Flu Hat campaign, she's crocheted over 700 hats for kids in hospitals.
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"Getting the flu shot isn't just about keeping you safe and healthy, getting the flu shot is about community," Adams said.
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Tamar Braxton is in the hospital fighting the flu and had a bad reaction to her flu meds ... TMZ has learned.
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A committee determines the three or four flu strains to include in next year's flu shot based on the meeting's recommendations.
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When Politico asked the White House about Copeland's pray-away-the-flu comments, it directed flu-related inquiries to the CDC.
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A bad flu season pushed it up in 239.9, and AIDS and the flu contributed to a sharp increase in 22014.
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In other words, because the flu vaccine is covered by Medicare Part B, seniors can get a flu shot for free.
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The 2017-2018 flu season was the most deadly in decades with more than 80,000 deaths, including 185 pediatric flu deaths.
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Then, as media coverage fades, public panic recedes and Avian flu, Swine flu, Ebola and the others fade from public consciousness.
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For the 2019-20 flu season, more than 162 million doses of flu vaccines will be made in the US, alone.
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Others believed that the flu vaccines don't work very well or that they were unlikely to get sick from the flu.
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Gottlieb emphasized that while new flu drugs are helpful for treatment, the best way to fight the flu is with vaccination.
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I might get sick/suffer side effects: First off, the flu shot cannot cause the flu — that is a myth. Why?
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Last flu season was the worst in nearly a decade, more severe than any since the swine flu outbreak in 27.
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That's why we have to get a new flu shot every year, and also why flu vaccines aren't always 100% effective.
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This year's flu season is now more intense than any since the 2009 swine flu pandemic — and it's still getting worse.
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The CDC said that there have been at least 34 million flu illnesses and 350,000 hospitalizations for the flu this season.
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Birds are the main source of the flu, and seals in the region have caught the flu from passing birds before.
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"I've gone through the swine flu in Mexico, I've gone through the avian flu — this is uncharted waters," Ms. Gregoli said.
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Flu seasons vary in severity, but thousands of children are hospitalized each year related to the flu, and some children die.
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Since it is currently flu season in the United States, the CDC recommends getting a flu vaccine -- it's not too late.
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These labs, which routinely check patient specimens for flu, will start checking for coronavirus in specimens that test negative for flu.
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The flu is an example of a virus that mutates; the mutation is why different flu vaccines are needed each year.
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The school district closed after 153 student absences, with the majority being due to either confirmed flu or flu-like symptoms.
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A December survey found 37 percent of Americans said they did not plan on getting a flu shot during flu season.
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Both Shoo the Flu and Flu Lab are private, for-profit companies and therefore not required to file public tax returns.
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In the last flu season, three children died of the flu while in the custody of US Customs and Border Protection.
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Fifty-three children have died from the flu since the start of the 2017-18 flu season, according to the CDC.
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Last year, three migrant children died from the flu while in CBP custody, and this year's flu season is already underway.
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Flu has been ticking up again in the wake of several mild seasons that followed the 2009-10 "swine flu" pandemic.
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Even at an N.N.T. of 100, for every 100 people who get a flu shot, one fewer will get the flu.
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Flu fighters may be furloughed Emergency rooms across the country are filling up with flu cases -- doctors say it's one of the worst flu seasons in recent years -- but despite the demand, the flu fighters who monitor the outbreak and help with testing at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might not stay on the job.
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The survey also indicated that parents are receiving misinformation about the flu vaccination, with nearly 85033 percent of polled parents saying their child has missed at least one flu shot, 20 percent expressing concerns that the vaccine would give their child the flu and 10 percent expressing doubt the flu was serious enough to warrant vaccination.
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For this year's vaccine, the FDA has recommended it contain a type of H1N1, H3N2, and two versions of flu-type B. So the effectiveness of this year's vaccine will depend on which flu virus circulates this flu season.
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"This flu season continues to be extremely challenging and intense, with very high levels of office visits for flu and hospitalization rates, all indications that flu activity is high and likely to continue for several more weeks," Schuchat said.
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The hope is that a universal vaccine could eliminate the need to update and administer the seasonal flu vaccine each year and could provide protection against newly emerging flu strains, potentially even those that could cause a flu pandemic.
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"This flu season continues to be extremely challenging and intense, with very high levels of office visits for flu and hospitalization rates, all indications that flu activity is high and likely to continue for several more weeks," she said.
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The 2017–18 flu season started and peaked early, and flu activity remained high across the US for a number of months.
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In the US, flu season lasts from October to April but in the Southern Hemisphere, flu activity peaks between July and September.
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Since the virus is completely killed, you cannot get the flu from the flu shot — this is a total myth, Eiras says.
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Per the AP, the CDC's Lynnette Brammer, who oversees flu tracking, says this year's flu season should be close to its end.
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The Maldives has been hit by an outbreak of flu, with some cases showing signs of H1N1 influenza A, or swine flu.
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The way our flu vaccines are often produced, via flu viruses that are incubated in eggs, might contribute to this lowered protection.
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The seasonal flu vaccine, even when not completely preventative, still tends to weaken the severity of a bout of flu, including H3N2.
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The main flu strain this winter, H3N2, is one we regularly face, though it is one of worst kinds of seasonal flu.
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Compared to my previous city life of constant socialization, my flu-free years have featured scant opportunity to acquire a flu virus.
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Of the 185 children who died from the flu last year, 80% had not received a flu shot, according to the CDC.
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That's because this year's main flu strain, the influenza A virus, known as H3N2, is worse than the swine flu in 2009.
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And while a flu shot is available, about half of Americans don't get vaccinated -- including most children who die from the flu.
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Many deaths from flu are caused by secondary bacterial pneumonia and heart attacks that develop after the flu has weakened someone's resistance.
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Independent researchers at Seattle's Flu Study, a research project studying flu in the Seattle region, sought permission to run their own test.
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She says the virus is really just a "respiratory flu" ... despite just about every doctor saying it's more serious than the flu.
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We want to protect him during the height of flu season, so I asked our parents and siblings to get flu shots.
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One reason is while measles and other infections are acknowledged to be deadly, the flu is viewed as, well, just the flu.
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After all, for most people, the flu shot is an inconvenience, and they're unlikely to get the flu in a given year.
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For example, the nation is still in the middle of a flu epidemic, and fever and cough are also symptoms of flu.
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Your doctor or healthcare provider would likely test for flu first, because the country is in the middle of a flu epidemic.
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I tend to contract the flu on a yearly basis, despite getting the flu shot and practicing correct precautions around my patients.
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The oncoming flu season has claimed its first lives, among them a child in Florida who had not gotten a flu shot.
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Above, treating flu patients in Allentown, Pa. It's not too late to get your flu shot — the virus persists into the spring.
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Although the percentages are not exact, the flu shot usually reduces your risk of getting the flu by 60 to 70 percent.
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Typically, the flu shot has been 493% to 60% effective in interim estimates when the flu vaccine viruses match the viruses circulating.
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Does it resemble the seasonal flu, SARS or one of the largest plagues in human history, the 1918-19 "Spanish flu" pandemic?
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As of this week, the country has confirmed 272,146 cases of the flu, making it the worst flu season in Australia's history.
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Everyone six months and older should get a flu shot every year The flu changes every year, and so does the vaccine.
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The CDC report shows there was significantly more flu activity last week than when the previous flu season was at its worst.
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Get your flu shot, experts say To avoid complications from the flu, Savoy, Chomilo and Nolan have the same recommendation: Get vaccinated.
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If you want to escape the flu completely, head to the US Virgin Islands, which was reporting no flu activity at all.
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Flu "can be serious even for healthy adults and healthy children," said Adams adding, "I'm going to get my flu shot today."
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According to TechCrunch, Page is funding an initiative called "Shoo the Flu," which offers free flu shots to schoolchildren in Oakland, California.
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But a universal flu shot would theoretically cover every strain of the flu using what's known as an ice cream cone approach.
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Olympics & flu Just before this year's Winter Olympics, everyone's worried about the flu -- like they were about Zika in Rio in 2016.
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The agency on Friday estimated that there have already been 1.7 million flu illnesses, 16,000 hospitalizations, and 20173 flu-related deaths nationally.
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Regardless of how well-matched this year's vaccine will be to circulating flu viruses, getting a flu shot is critical, Pauley notes.
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The H3N2 strain, dominant during last year's 2017-18 flu season, generally causes worse flu symptoms, leading to more hospitalizations and deaths.
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But for context, in recent years, mild flu seasons tend to kill about 12,000 Americans, and severe flu seasons kill about 56,000.
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Related: Flu Vaccine Protects About Half the Time This particular one works against H1 influenza viruses - the ones now circulating in the H1N1 flu that caused a pandemic in 2009 and that now is part of the seasonal flu mix.
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Getting the flu shot is your best line of defense"Without a doubt, getting vaccinated with a seasonal flu shot is the best way to prevent the flu," says Dr. Phil Mitchel, MD, MS, the national medical director of DispatchHealth.
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In most years, some percentage of the population will be resistant to flu infection and less likely to become severely ill from that year's flu strains because they previously had a similar strain of the flu or were vaccinated against it.
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Schools, it turns out, have been "real incubators" during some flu outbreaks, Dr. Markel said, including the 2009 swine flu pandemic, as well as the Spanish flu pandemic a century ago, estimated to have caused at least 50 million deaths worldwide.
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More patients are being hospitalized with flu-like symptoms, some stores have had spot shortages of flu medications, and there have been 22 flu-related deaths reported among patients younger than 23, according to the California Department of Public Health.
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Fitzgerald said the flu vaccine and antiviral drugs used to fight the flu are widely available across the country, noting that people can go to the CDC website and enter their zip code to find the nearest flu clinics with vaccines.
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There were as many as 26.3 million flu illnesses, 12.4 million medical visits and 23,000 flu hospitalizations between October 1 and March 2, according to the weekly flu report released Friday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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During the last flu season, which was one of the worst to hit the U.S. in decades, 183 children died from the flu.
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It's been a moderate flu year so far — not especially deadly and not infecting more people than usual in the annual flu epidemic.
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There are actually half a dozen different flu vaccines that are formulated differently and that protect against either three or four flu strains.
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Yes, the shot is made from the flu virus — but it's inactivated, making it impossible for the vaccine to give you the flu.
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Type A flu viruses—those which cause pandemics, and also most seasonal flu, have two important surface proteins, haemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N).
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The CDC estimates that since 22, there have been between 25,63 and 26,2100 flu-related hospitalizations and 26,000 to 56,000 flu-related deaths.
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Seven children died from the flu last week, bringing the total pediatric flu deaths reported to the CDC this season up to 20.
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The CDC estimates that since 2010, there have been between 140,000 and 710,000 flu-related hospitalizations and 12,000 to 56,000 flu-related deaths.
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A second wave of the flu that kicked off in February has now made this year's flu season the longest in a decade.
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In general, the best time to get a flu shot is before the onset of flu activity in your community, Dr. Lautenbach says.
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At the end of a given flu season, the CDC releases data as to the effectiveness of the flu vaccine for that season.
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Honestly, there was a moment in time when I think I had the flu, or I was ... I think it was the flu.
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I think people get the cold and the flu confused, which is unfortunate because the flu can make you really sick in pregnancy.
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Allison had mild asthma, but about half the children who die from the flu were healthy before flu hit, according to the CDC.
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In past years, the flu shot has been least effective against A (H3N2) viruses compared with other A or B strain flu viruses.
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The flu when you're pregnantThe flu can infect anybody but there are certain populations at higher risk of developing complications from the infection.
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Getting the flu shot is your best chance at protection against the flu, even in years where scientists don't get it completely right.
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Expectant mothers are at an increased risk of developing complications from the flu, so a flu shot is especially important if you're pregnant.
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The 13 H1N1 flu epidemic prompted many schools to review and implement some protocols, but these plans are often reviewed for flu season.
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Community capacity to respond to COVID-19 will be all the stronger if we prevent excess seasonal flu cases through higher flu vaccination.
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A deadly flu A mutated flu has long been a contender for the source of our next pandemic, according to virologists and epidemiologists.
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Time and again, zoonotic viruses emerge from these contexts: wave after wave of avian flu, swine flu, Nipah virus ... the list goes on.
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Flu hospitalizations in this country rarely shoot up before mid-December, and Americans are far more likely than Australians to get flu shots.
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It can be the big one but like, for flu — whether you have a pandemic with flu, it's a function of the virus.
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Manufacturers were able to stop making the vaccine against the seasonal flu and start making a vaccine for this new strain of flu.
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From severe acute respiratory syndrome to bird flu and swine flu to ebola and zika to coronavirus, unfortunately, it is like Groundhog Day.
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Some historians claimed that China was the likely source of the deadliest flu pandemic in history, the 1918 Spanish Flu — a misnomer itself.
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C.D.C. flu data relies on reports from doctors' offices, clinics and hospital emergency rooms about how many patients come in with flu symptoms.
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Murtaugh shared on Twitter that Payton had been diagnosed with H1N1 flu, commonly known as swine flu, before she died suddenly on Friday.
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Although not perfect, the flu shot is the best way to protect ourselves and our loved ones from the flu and its complications.
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At least 22009,21 people have been hospitalized with complications from the flu, and that number is predicted to climb as flu activity swirls.
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I was shocked to learn that only 85033 percent of adults bothered to get a flu vaccine during the 2009 Swine Flu pandemic.
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Occasionally, extremely dangerous combinations can spark pandemics, such as the deadly H1N1.73 "swine flu" that spread worldwide in the 2009-10 flu season.
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Experts say the most prevalent strain is H0003N2000, also known as "Australian flu" after it emerged during that country's most recent flu season.
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Indeed, the flu vaccinations averted 40,000 deaths in the United States between the 2005–2006 and 2013–2014 flu seasons, the CDC estimates.
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Go deeper: Universal flu vaccine means big bucks for biotech firms The pandemic potential NIH announces first human trial for universal flu vaccine
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Even a highly infectious flu virus would be temporarily stymied in winter if the seasonal flu had already infected much of the population.
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Another reason for the severity of last year's flu season is that the H3N803 virus is hard to prevent with the flu vaccine.
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That's why flu vaccines are the best weapon against not only avoiding the flu once but multiple times because they contain multiple different substrains of influenza types A and B."Overall, the more exposure you have to different strains and the more years of flu shots you have, the better you'll be able to fight off the variety of flu strains," Cotton says.
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And the number of reported pediatric deaths—180—was the highest ever caused by a seasonal flu since the current surveillance system was established in 2004 (though the 2009 swine flu pandemic, which is not considered a seasonal flu, killed more children).
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The flu shot also prevents the spread of flu to others — including vulnerable people who are more likely to be hospitalized or die from the flu — such as young children, the elderly, cancer patients, or people who can't get vaccinated for medical reasons.
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It might seem odd that a simple flu can be so catastrophic—after all, many of us get the flu every year—but these avian-type influenzas are so distinct from the seasonal flu that causes uncomfortable but treatable congestion, fever, and chills.
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"There's a large body of evidence on the safety of flu vaccination in pregnancy [...] and it's important for pregnant women to get vaccinated for flu because they are at increased risk of having severe flu and complications from influenza," Shimabukuro told BuzzFeed News.
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"This means that getting a flu vaccine this season reduced the risk of having to go to the doctor because of flu by nearly 21%," Dr. Joseph Bresee, chief of epidemiology in the flu division at CDC, said in a news release.
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There have been as many as 11.4 million flu illnesses, 5.4 million medical visits and 136,000 flu hospitalizations between October 1, 2018 and January 19, 2019, according to the weekly flu report released Friday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt, said it would have been reasonable to ask about a flu test, given that it was flu season and an agent had observed that the boy had possible symptoms of the flu.
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But unlike past flu medications, Xofluza is formulated to block the enzyme that the flu uses to copy itself and spread, so it should be able to fight against strains of the flu that are resistant to the other drugs on the market.
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When to get a flu shot while pregnantThe best time to get your flu shot is in October, which is early in the flu season, says Dr. Laura Riley, an obstetrician and gynecologist-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
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" - On her Saturday night show, Fox host Jeanine Pirro downplayed the possibility that the coronavirus is more deadly than the flu, arguing that "that's only because there's a flu vaccine" and if not for the vaccine, "the flu would be a pandemic.
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The flu kills thousands of people every year, but its death rate is lowDuring the 2018-19 flu season, about 35 million people in the US contracted the flu and about 34,000 died, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Flu is everywhere, may be declining in the West Over the past 15 flu seasons, the current season is the first time all states in the entire continental US have reported widespread flu activity during the same week, according to the CDC.
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For the 343-2019 US flu season, which started October 1, 2018 and ended May 4, 2019, preliminary numbers from the CDC estimate there were up to 42.9 million cases of flu, up to 647,000 hospitalizations and up to 61,200 flu deaths.
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But it's been doubly effective at preventing flu in young children, as well as at preventing flu caused by the other major strains around.
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The Spanish flu pandemic of 33, which killed 50m to 100m people, was a potent version of the "swine flu" that emerged in 2009.
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The most important response to seasonal flu is for everyone 6 months or older to get vaccinated against the flu, according to the CDC.
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The flu vaccine is simple, takes zero time, and is the best way to reduce your odds of spending a week in flu agony.
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Heretofore, the only drug that was available for treating the flu was Tamiflu, a twice-daily pill that reduces flu symptoms in five days.
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This is also the structure that gives flu viruses the "H" in their names, and it's the part that many flu vaccines aim for.
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During the 2012-2013 flu season, only 46% of patients with lung disease and 50% of patients with heart disease received the flu vaccine.
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People who get their flu vaccine may still get the flu, but they'll get much less sick than they would have if they didn't.
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The downright reckless headline they went with is "CDC Doctor: 'Disastrous' Flu Shot Is Causing Deadly Flu Outbreak," and boy is it ever bad.
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Flu shots are pretty weird: Every year a bunch of epidemiologists get together and make an educated prediction as to the forthcoming flu season.
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While you can still get the flu even if you've had a flu shot, it can reduce the risk of serious illness and complications.
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Why flu season is in the fall and winterThe flu tends to spike in the fall and winter for a major reason: the temperature.
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When you're infected with the flu multiple times a yearUnfortunately, it's not uncommon to get the flu more than once a year, Cotton says.
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The number of flu-related doctor visits has already reached a 20-year high and nearly 100 flu-related pediatric deaths have been reported.
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Last year's flu vaccine, for example, was estimated to have a 61 percent success rate during the 14.993-2016 flu season at preventing disease.
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This finding comes as the government reports that flu is widespread in 49 states and 30 kids have died so far this flu season.
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More than 130 million doses of flu vaccine have been distributed so far this year and flu activity is still low across the nation.
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At a congressional hearing on flu preparedness in March, Fauci emphasized the need for a universal flu vaccine and the difficulty in creating one.
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People who should not get a standard flu shot include those with deadly allergies to egg proteins, but there are alternative flu vaccines available.
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An annual flu shot is the most effective way to prevent an infection from the flu virus, which is why it's recommended by physicians.
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NATIONAL An article on Friday about the benefits of receiving the flu shot described incorrectly how the effectiveness of the flu vaccine is gauged.
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They might be like the 1968 Hong Kong flu, which killed a million people, or the 1918 Spanish flu, which killed over 40 million.
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The biggest problem with flu vaccine is the need to determine months in advance of flu season which of the virus variants to include.
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With other coronaviruses, like the common cold and the flu, immunization is temporary, which is why we have a seasonal flu shot, for instance.
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Pregnant women who get flu are also at higher risk of serious and even deadly illness, and should regard flu vaccine as a priority.
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In conflating the flu and the coronavirus, Mr. Trump repeatedly emphasized the annual number of deaths from the flu, and occasionally inflated his estimates.
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The Texas Department of State Health Services reports no pediatric flu deaths in that region of the state during the 2018-2019 flu season.
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That compares with a mortality rate of 0.095% for the flu in the U.S., according to CDC estimates for the 2019-2020 flu season.
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It was called the Spanish flu because of a wire report declaring one of the first major flu outbreaks, which was in Madrid, Spain.
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Flu activity is still on the rise in the U.S., government officials said Friday, with several weeks left to go in the flu season.
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The U.S. flu season continues to be particularly severe, by one metric rivaling the 2009 swine flu pandemic, U.S. public health officials said Friday.
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As of January 22017, Canada recorded 233 flu-related deaths for the season and 23,503 flu-related hospitalizations, mostly in adults 250 or older.
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The search for a universal flu vaccine So what does the future hold for flu vaccines and where could this new approach fit in?
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Despite the CDC's recommendations to take steps to fight the flu, two more migrant children died of the flu after the report was sent.
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After three children with the flu this season -- two of Adrian's siblings caught it, as well -- Bonin has seen firsthand what flu can do.
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The recent news that a four-year-old Iowa girl who did not receive the flu shot this season has lost her eyesight — and it may be permanent — as the result of the flu is a reminder of the dangers of the flu this season.
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" The argument comes from parents who vaccinated their children against the flu at ages 1, 2, 3 and 4; parents of children who tolerated the vaccine well, who did not contract the flu, and yet at age 5 the flu shot suddenly became "unnecessary.
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The NFID survey of more than 2000,261 people found that there was an increase in the number of children who were vaccinated against the flu: almost 513% got it in the 251-234 flu season, an increase of nearly 222% from the flu season before.
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"They're saying flu-like symptoms," Franklin said, referencing reports that the musician had been battling the flu in the weeks leading up to his death.
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While the drug can treat the flu, the FDA in approving the drug reminds people that it is not a replacement for the flu vaccine.
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Among the mothers of that 1.6 percent, fewer than 2010 percent had the flu while pregnant, and about 23 percent had gotten a flu vaccine.
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Dwindling resources may explain why just 10 states vaccinated at least half of their population against the seasonal flu during the 2015-16 flu season.
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Here's everything you need to know about the flu to prepare yourself for the 2018-2019 flu season, and to handle it once it hits.
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Get your flu vaccine It's not a perfect vaccine because there are a number of flu strains that circulate, but it does provide some protection.
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The flu also mutates constantly, so the circulating strains can change between the time scientists make a prediction and when the flu vaccine is ready.
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It's simple: if you don't want to get the flu (or if you get it, to at least lessen its severity), get the flu shot.
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This is why it's important not to see your flu shot as a hall pass and let other flu-preventing precautions fall to the side.
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All three groups were given a weakened form of the flu virus—the exact same kind of virus used in the nasal spray flu vaccine.
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Another response to the flu, the production of IgA antibodies specifically tailored to the flu, was weakened in people who used e-cigarettes as well.
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The flu has killed at least 63 kids in the U.S. since the start of this flu season, and this number is expected to rise.
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In the 2015-20183 flu season, just 43.3 percent of U.S. adults got the flu vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Changes in the flu virus, environment and even "some factors we honestly don't understand" can contribute to how the flu season hits nations, he added.
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Most pregnant and breastfeeding women seen during northern hemisphere flu season had been vaccinated against the flu or received a shot during their clinic visit.
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The most important response to seasonal flu, according to the CDC, is for everyone age 6 months or older to get vaccinated against the flu.
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For example, in 2009, a cat in Oregon died of H1N1 flu complications after its owner was hospitalized with the same strain of the flu.
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The flu vaccine is designed months in advanceWhile flu vaccine may be widely distributed only during certain months, creating it is a year-round process.
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Most people with the flu this season are infected with the H3N2 virus, one of the most severe — and deadly — strains of the seasonal flu.
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In this case the "edits" are to remove parts of a protein on which the flu virus normally depends, making the chickens totally flu-resistant.
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Death rates from the flu during the 2018-2019 US flu season were all well below 0.1% for each age group under 303 years old.
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We had H1N1, we had the swine flu, we had the avian flu, we went through Ebola, we went through MERS, we went through SARS.
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OOF: In comparing the coronavirus with the flu, Trump said he was "shocked" to hear the rate of people who died because of the flu.
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But in city after city during the 1918 flu pandemic, giving up on such measures early consistently caused flu cases and deaths to rise again.
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The CDC estimates that 10,000 people have died from the flu this season, with some 19 million people in the US having experienced flu illness.
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While it is months into flu season, It is not too late for anyone, especially small children and pregnant women to get the flu shot.
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It has since been deleted, but it said that Dr. Jiang had also treated patients during the outbreaks of the avian flu and swine flu.
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Fauci said that there's "a lot of effort and interest now in doing better" with both the seasonal flu vaccine and a universal flu vaccine.
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Comparing the flu and the Wuhan coronavirusBoth the flu and the coronavirus can be transmitted from person to person via coughing and other close contact.
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Flu season is hitting faster and more furiously than last year — and it could peak just in time for the holidays, according to flu forecasters.
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No connection between miscarriage and flu shot The new study examined the flu seasons of 2012-13, 1-14 and 2014-15 individually and together.
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Federal officials said last week that this flu season is more intense than any since the 85033 swine flu pandemic and likely to get worse.
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" Cosgrove's thinking is much the same as Shu's: "I get a flu vaccine every three months, and I haven't had the flu in 203 years.
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The senators' letter asks the department how it plans to keep the flu from spreading and asks if every individual is tested for the flu.
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In studies in which the flu shot was considered ineffective, 23.9 percent of vaccinated people had the flu compared with 23.9 percent of unvaccinated people.
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Australia, where the flu peaks in August, just endured a particularly vicious year, and the British papers blared headlines about "Aussie Killer Flu" heading north.
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In the 2009-2010 swine flu epidemic, by contrast, 59 million Americans are thought to have caught the novel strain that first appeared in the spring, but only about 20153,000 died because the infection was relatively mild, according to the C.D.C. (That flu, an H1N1 strain, was called a "swine flu," despite the objections of the pork industry, because it emerged in a pig-farming region of Mexico and was the first human flu virus to contain genes from both North American and Eurasian pig flus.) The dominant strain last season was an H3N2 flu, which is usually the most deadly of the four seasonal flu strains that typically circulate.
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The CDC committee, which includes 15 immunization experts, reviewed data from previous flu seasons, including the most recent season, comparing FluMist with the standard flu shot.
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But 53 percent also believed wrongly that the flu vaccine could cause the flu, and 34 percent actually believed the shot would not work at all.
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The flu shot is not perfect — it's about 60% effective, at best — but it is your best protection against the flu and its complications, including death.
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Compared to the known benefits of the flu vaccine, these risks are rare enough that they shouldn't deter any healthy person from getting the flu shot.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, flu viruses usually begin to increase in October and the flu season peaks between December and February.
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It is a conundrum that scientists have deliberated over for a century, because the 21918 flu is an anomaly in the annals of flu pandemics too.
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So instead of focusing on the potential harms from the flu shot (which are rare and unlikely), think about the known dangers of getting the flu.
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The flu and strep throat share many symptoms, but there are two you may find in the flu but never in strep: cough and nasal congestion.
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You may also have some congestion, coughing, and fatigue, all of which could point to the flu–but in this case, they're simply flu-like symptoms.
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The 2014–23 flu season also had an early peak with high levels of flu activity in January, Fauci says, and the predominant strain was H3N2.
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As time passed, Pugh and Splan decided to use Emma's story to raise awareness about pediatric flu and to encourage everyone to get the flu shot.
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No Rating Impact from Avian Flu Fitch expects the impact of avian flu in France on LFF to be temporary, and therefore manageable for current ratings.
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Mom of Three with Flu Diagnosis Is Now Hospitalized with Flesh-Eating Disease Earlier this month, Jenny Ching, of Needham, Massachusetts, died suddenly of flu complications.
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Flu season has arrived—and if you haven't gone for your annual flu shot yet, you've probably at least penciled it into your calendar (hint hint).
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After issuing its report, Google Flu overestimated the number of flu cases for 100 of the next 108 weeks, by an average of nearly 100 percent.
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New York, for instance, saw more flu-related hospitalizations and cases reported this past week since the state's current flu surveillance program was established in 2004.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will keep fighting and tracking the flu virus, which is important, because this year's flu season is a disaster.
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Contrary to popular misconception, getting the flu vaccine doesn't give you flu: According to the U.K.'s National Health Service website, the vaccine contains inactivated viruses.
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The CDC reported a total of 160 flu-related deaths in children and 30,064 flu-related hospitalizations overall between October 1, 2017 and April 21, 2018.
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During the last flu season, 179 children died, with hundreds hospitalized due to flu-related illnesses, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The CDC said last flu season, 57.9% of children between the ages of 6 months and 17 years received flu vaccines, less than the year before.
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So if the flu virus spreads most in colder temperatures, does that mean warming global temperatures could lead to a milder flu season in the future?
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The most common are flu types A and B, which is why each year the flu vaccine contains strains of both types A and B viruses.
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However, an additional 17 children died from the flu in the past week, bringing the total number of flu-related pediatric deaths this season to 114.
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The CDC said it continues to recommend flu shots for everyone aged 6 months and older, as flu viruses are likely to continue circulating for weeks.
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Related stories:You can't get the flu from the flu shot, but there are side effectsThe common causes of a runny nose and how to stop it
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This year's flu season is now more intense than any since the 2009 swine flu pandemic and still getting worse, federal health officials said on Friday.
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The CDC said on February 21 that it estimated there had been 29 million flu illnesses and 16,000 deaths from flu so far this season ( here ).
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The virus could work more like the flu, which mutates every year, which is why you can get a new strain of it each flu season.
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It's an important step toward a type of flu shot that scientists have long sought: a shield against whatever flu strain people happen to pick up.
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Above, a hospital room used for flu patients in Cumming, Ga. It's not too late to get your flu shot — the virus persists into the spring.
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The CDC says if the flu is still circulating in your community, you still need to get a flu shot if you haven't gotten one yet.
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Trials in Canadian hospitals during the 2003 SARS epidemic and during flu season showed that nurses who wore a mask were less likely to get flu.
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In past years, the effectiveness of flu vaccines in general has been lower against H20173N2 viruses than against other influenza A- or B-strain flu viruses.
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And hospital visits from patients with flu-like symptoms have ramped up faster than usual, on pace with the 2012-2013 and 2014-2015 flu seasons.
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While they're not wrong, it's important to know that flu shots can help decrease the severity of the flu, often cutting your down time in half.
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The report says this flu season had one of the earliest starts since 2009, and flu activity remains high in most regions of the United States.
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It happened in 1957, when a flu pandemic killed 1.1 million people worldwide, and again in 28, when another flu strain killed about 22020 million people.
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I recognized the classic symptoms right away and tested her for flu, though it was still early September and I wasn't expecting to see flu yet.
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The yearly flu vaccine generally covers four prevailing strains but is imperfect because it's primarily made by culturing the flu virus in billions of hen's eggs.
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While most flu viruses target the young and old, the majority of those who died from the Spanish Flu were between 20 and 40 years old.
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Flu struck early this season, starting in the Southeast, with Texas, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi experiencing the highest level of flu activity by mid-November.
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This year's flu has already killed an estimated 2900,220006 people in America, and the flu is spreading more rapidly now than it has in average years.
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Schwartz said it's not just the US that's been hit with a particularly bad flu season; Canada has had a bump in flu cases, as well.
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" Among her Chicago patients who had declined a flu shot, Chandra-Puri said, "the scare about the flu has prompted a few to get it now.
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Some flu experts have privately complained that this year, the C.D.C. appears to be promoting vaccination less vigorously than usual, especially given the "Aussie flu" worries.
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They showed that when a vaccine is considered effective, 212 percent of vaccinated people had the flu, while 2000 percent of unvaccinated people had the flu.
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Flu outbreak in Sydney: Australia's biggest city is in the grip of a flu outbreak, with more than 8,000 cases in the first week of August.
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It isn't clear if Kevin had a flu vaccination this season, but the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) reports that the flu vaccine lessens the chance that someone catches the virus by 10 to 60 percent though it doesn't guarantee that someone will not catch the flu.
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It's time to get your flu shot You should still get a flu shot Even in the best-case scenario, when the commonly circulating strains match those in the vaccine, the vaccine usually only protects 50% or 60% of those immunized from getting the flu, Jackson said.
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On the positive side of things, 68 percent of parents believed that the flu vaccine was the best way to prevent their children from getting the flu.
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"I agree with my colleagues that investing in—and working toward—the universal flu vaccine is crucial," Gottlieb began, after acknowledging this year's flu was particularly nasty.
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Researchers looked at countrywide data on people's visits to the doctor for flu-like symptoms from 2002 to 2008, using it as a barometer for flu activity.
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"The flu shot boosts your body's ability to fight infection, so you may get the flu but have milder symptoms, avoid hospitalization, and avoid death," said Maragakis.
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Even if you get the flu after being vaccinated, your symptoms shouldn't be as severe and you're less likely to be hospitalized or die from the flu.
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As volunteers cough, heave, sleep and shiver, researchers hope to glean how levels of preexisting flu antibodies will impact the duration and severity of participants' flu symptoms.
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Go deeper: The worst flu season in eight years Why the U.S. faces a growing risk of epidemics Bill Gates announces $12 million for universal flu vaccine
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People who have a severe allergy to the flu vaccine or one of its ingredients should not get any type of flu vaccine, according to the CDC.
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Some N.F.L. teams' regions are more prone to the flu and flu mortality than others, because of differences in weather and demographics, which can be statistically controlled.
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But the start of flu "season" and the duration can vary from year to year, which is why it can be difficult to plan your flu shot.
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But it takes about two weeks after you get the flu vaccine for you to develop antibodies against the flu (aka for it to "work"), he says.
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At the end of the day, the flu shot is one easy step that you should take to prevent the flu this year, but it's not perfect.
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Among the 0.6 people in the study who developed at least one heart attack while recovering from the flu, 69 percent had not received a flu shot.
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Fewer people have sought outpatient care or have been hospitalized for flu-like illnesses this season, the CDC said in a report summarizing flu activity from Sept.
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Infants, the elderly, and immunocompromised people are always at higher risk of dying from the flu, but how exactly does the flu kill an otherwise healthy person?
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Scientists have discovered a flu hotspot on the New Jersey shore, where flu-carrying birds from far and wide congregate each spring to eat horseshoe crab eggs.
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While a flu vaccine is not 100% effective, it does lessen the severity of symptoms and the duration of illness in those who might get the flu.
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Even though the flu season is underway, there are still potentially several months of the season left, and it's not too late to get a flu shot.
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It is funded through the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority's (BARDA) pan flu program, which contracts with vaccine makers to research and manufacture pan flu countermeasures.
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Since the most recent flu season began in September, the CDC has distributed a total of 145 million doses of the flu vaccine, according to its website.
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Both the CDC and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommend flu shots for all women who are or will be pregnant during the flu season.
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"We're right in the middle of the flu season, and when a patient has respiratory symptoms and fever, we need to think of flu first," Muñoz said.
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The CDC says it's too soon to tell how effective this year's flu vaccine will be but encourages everyone who is eligible to get a flu vaccine.
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Astral confirmed an outbreak of bird flu at its Standerton breeding farm in South Africa's Mpumalanga province after avian flu was previously detected on its Villiers farm.
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And she found that with the usage of the flu vaccine guaranteed to increase, there was a 2.5-fold increase in clinical trials for new flu vaccines.
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Then the drugs are manufactured before the most recent flu season is over so that new flu vaccines can ship in time to doctors' offices and pharmacies.
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I have never had a flu shot, and I haven't had the flu in 40 years— I don't trust what is going into many of the vaccines.
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Because now I'm vaguely under the weather, with flu-like symptoms and a negative flu test, and no idea whether or not I have the novel coronavirus.
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It appears a person who is infected with Covid-19 spreads it to more people than the flu, so it may spread farther and faster than flu.
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Also in 2014, a lab at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention accidentally contaminated a relatively benign flu sample with a dangerous H5N1 bird flu strain.
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Senator Chuck Schumer has called on the federal government to designate a "domestic flu surveillance team" to collect data and better target the flu in New York.
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But estimates range from a manageable 64,000 ventilators, if this outbreak is like the 1957 flu, to around 740,000 if it's more like the 753 Spanish flu.
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It's unclear if his death is included among the five pediatric flu deaths that occurred in that region of the state during the 2018-2019 flu season.
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This is not to downplay the flu; that disease is still an annual blight we could be even more proactive about fighting (annual flu shots are important!).
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While a new flu vaccine is developed each year, it's designed to target specific strands of the flu virus and would be ineffective in fighting the coronavirus.
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Every time we have a new epidemic, Medley notes, people compare it to the flu and say that the flu is infecting and killing far more people.
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Story at a glance Millions get the flu every year, and getting the yearly flu vaccine is far and away the best way to protect against it.
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"You're 36% less likely to get the flu and see the doctor if you get a flu shot," Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Thursday.
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If you got the flu shot but you end up catching the flu, it could be less severe and less likely to land you in the hospital.
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Every year, the Food and Drug Administration chooses which strains of flu to put into the year's flu vaccine based on recommendations from the World Health Organization.
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In fact, in the past 10 flu seasons, there have never been this many places with the highest level of flu activity at this time of year.
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Brammer added that it's not too late to get a flu shot, and that this year the vaccine looks like a "pretty good" match with the flu.
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This year's flu season is the worst in nearly a decade — the most intense since 2009's swine flu pandemic — and it's only going to get worse.
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For example, a 2019 study published in the Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics found that the nasal spray vaccine for the 2018-19 flu season was less effective than the flu shot in protecting children from getting two common strains of the flu, H1N1 and H3N2.
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At every trimester, the flu vaccine is safe and effective for both pregnant women and their fetuses, plus it protects babies after they are born, preventing flu in the first six months of their lives when they are too young to get their own flu shot, she said.
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The findings suggest that natural killer cells with KLRD1 may be protective against the flu, although this is likely just one aspect of flu susceptibility, the researchers said.
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Lakdawala started studying the flu for the National Institutes of Health in 2009, when they thought the next flu pandemic would come from a bird, not a pig.
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Researchers are examining these questions, Webby said, while scientists work on developing a universal flu vaccine: a single shot to protect against all strains of flu for life.
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As it happens, Freddie was in recovery from a serious bout of flu (described by him as 'the worst flu ever') and shingles, combined with an upset stomach.
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Because our system of tracking flu-related death and illness has changed over the years, it's difficult to know the last time the seasonal flu was as deadly.
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If you have carb flu, don't just decide to ride it out, because you don't have to avoid carbs or experience carb flu in order to be healthier.
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Medicare covers one flu shot each season, and Medicaid covers flu shots for children and some adults — contact your state's Medicaid office to find out if you're covered.
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The flu has an incubation period of one to four days, so it's possible to get the shot when you already have the flu and don't know it.
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Considering the severity of this year's flu season, it's tempting to think every cough, muscle ache, and hint of a fever is a sign you caught the flu.
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The CDC is still recommending that anyone over the age of 6 months gets a flu shot, because the flu will continue to circulate for several more weeks.
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The CDC is still recommending that anyone over the age of 6 months get a flu shot, because the flu will continue to circulate for several more weeks.
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Doctors may call a nasty GI infection the "stomach flu" to draw a clear distinction between infections and food poisoning, but no flu shot will prevent against it.
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It's developing a flu shot that prompts a person's immune system to bring out its big guns, like killer T-cells, rather than antibodies to fight the flu.
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A flu pandemic, according to the CDC, is what happens when a new flu strain leads to a global outbreak, which is what humanity experienced in 1918-1919.
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It is true that the flu this year is a somewhat nasty one, and has killed people who received flu shots, but the vaccine itself hasn't killed anyone.
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"Otherwise, we're going to keep having this problem come up over and over again with seasonal flu, and we're going to be largely unprepared for a flu pandemic."
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Here's one more reason pregnant women should get a flu shot: It not only protects mothers, but a large study suggests it prevents flu in the infant, too.
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"Most people with the flu would do well to get some fluids, bed rest, and some Tylenol or Motrin to bring your flu down," Wild told the station.
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Afterward, the average vaccination rate rose to 21 percent, with more than half of pregnant mothers getting the flu vaccine during the final flu season in the study.
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Pretty early on in the swine flu pandemic of 2009, it became clear the virus wasn't very deadly; it now circulates in the mix of seasonal flu pathogens.
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Flu season remains near its peak through February, and the flu remains a risk well after that, as Aaron Carroll, an Indiana University medical professor, told me yesterday.
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And the current flu vaccine seems to be mismatched to the virus — in Australia, where flu season comes earlier, it was estimated to be only 10 percent effective.
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The C.D.C. also still recommends getting this season's flu shot, despite its questionable prophylactic value, because it might reduce the severity of the flu should you contract it.
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Moreover, a push to expand maternal flu vaccines could be a building block for improving developing countries' currently limited infrastructure to protect themselves against a global flu pandemic.
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As often as not, flu victims were finished off by pneumonia, a secondary infection that followed closely upon the flu virus's trail, constituting a lethal one-two punch.
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And take the same precautions you would during a normal flu season: Encourage frequent hand-washing, move away from people who appear sick and get the flu shot.
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Newborns are not able to receive flu vaccinations and only receive this passive protection from their mothers receiving the flu shot during pregnancy or by breastfeeding after birth.
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Dr. Colin Bucks at the Stanford Health Care Department of Emergency Medicine, said this flu season appears to him as the worst since the 2009 swine flu pandemic.
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Until then, doctors urge people to remember that flu can kill and that getting a flu shot is better than nothing, even at this point in the season.
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Google co-founder Larry Page is reportedly funnelling millions of dollars into an initiative called "Shoo the Flu," which offers free flu shots to schoolchildren in Oakland, California.
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Mistakenly, the general public believes a bad flu season simply means a lot of people either die or get seriously ill due only to the flu, said Ardolic.
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The names have to be generic, based on science-y things like symptoms or severity—no more places (Spanish Flu), people (Creutzfeld-Jacob disease), or animals (bird flu).
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So far this flu season, at least 217,26 people in the US are estimated to have died of the flu, according to data released Friday by the CDC.
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Even though the flu season is well underway, the worst could still be ahead, so the CDC advises everyone older than 6 months to get a flu shot.
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Three out of four children who died from the flu had not gotten a flu vaccine, the acting director of the CDC said in a Thursday news conference.
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" Chicago pediatrician Dr. Anita Chandra-Puri said this year's flu season has been "pretty busy, but mostly because we sense there is more flu earlier in the season.
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The C.D.C. normally tracks flu season by collating weekly reports from doctors about how many patients come in with flu symptoms, and how many are hospitalized with it.
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The Flu Vaccine That Lasts a Lifetime is ComingThe flu vaccine: A tedious annual chore, but necessary unless you want to spend a week bed-ridden…Read more ReadLooking to the future, it's wholly possible that a universal flu vaccine will be developed—that is, a vaccine offering lifelong protection.
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A new kind of flu vaccineFor the 2019-2020 flu season, the majority of vaccines will be made from eggs, likely in one of the two prominent US flu-vaccine manufacturers: Sanofi Pasteur, which has a manufacturing plant in Swiftwater, Pennsylvania, and Seqirus, with a plant in Holly Springs, North Carolina.
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In the 22013 shutdown, public health surveillance work was left undone, and the flu surveillance program that helps people get flu shots and tracks cases shut down, making it hard to keep the country safe from the flu, according to a study in the Journal of Science Policy and Governance.
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In the 2013 shutdown, public health surveillance work was left undone, and the flu surveillance program that helps people get flu shots and tracks cases shut down, making it hard to keep the country safe from the flu, according to a study in The Journal of Science Policy and Governance.
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But a new survey suggests many people still avoid the flu shot because of misconceptions about how it works, including that the vaccine actually can give you the flu.
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Photo: Pexels (Pixabay)Whether you live in a huge metropolis or quiet small town, you're not safe from the flu and you need to get your damn flu shot.
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It's because the flu vaccine is actually working, making your immune system fire up, get ready and recognize it, if it actually sees the flu, how to kill it.
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Some flu symptoms may mimic a cold, but the flu tends to be much more serious and deadly — so it's important to know the difference between these two illnesses.
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US flu activity A severe flu season is at its peak nationwide with reports of one dangerous strain falling while another surges, according to newly released federal health data.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that, since 2010, there have been between 140,000 and 710,000 flu-related hospitalizations and 12,000 to 56,000 flu-related deaths.
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The popular, needle-free FluMist influenza vaccine has not protected kids or adults against flu for years and should not be used this coming flu season, experts said Wednesday.
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The seasonal flu vaccine usually protects against three or four strains of the flu, which are chosen based on predictions for what will circulate in the US that year.
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It's actually pretty easy to tell the difference, according to this very handy "flu algorithm" going around on Twitter: Flu info from a literal Doctor...who is funny. pic.twitter.
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Whenever I had the flu, my mom gave me a pinky-sized vial of Oscillococcinum, sweet "flu crystals," as we called them, that I dissolved happily under my tongue.
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A report released by the government on Friday said this season's flu epidemic has become just as bad as the 2009 swine flu outbreak, and is expected to worsen.
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This is a big deal, not just because we're entering into flu season, but also because this is the first flu drug the FDA has approved in 20 years.
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Symptoms of swine flu are similar to a seasonal flu and can include fever, cough, runny nose, and sometimes body aches, nausea, vomiting or diarrhea, according to the DHHS.
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This flu season is expected to come close to or even surpass the death toll seen during the severe flu season of 2014-2015, in which 56,000 Americans died.
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Dozens of people have died in recent days from an outbreak of the of H2000N22009 flu strain, commonly known as swine flu, that is currently sweeping across Eastern Europe.
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Public health officials are always on the lookout for a flu pandemic, which involves a new strain that spreads globally, such as the so-called Swine Flu of 210.
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"For the past three weeks, the entire country has been experiencing lots of flu all at the same time," Dan Jernigan, a top CDC flu official, said in January.
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Tests ordered by the researchers were positive for flu in another 59 patients, or nearly 6 percent of the group that didn't have flu tests ordered by their physicians.
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Bird flu and swine flu can quickly morph into novel strains of people-killing virusesOne of these pandemic viruses could even be hiding out in a bird near you.
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The mild season is a dramatic shift from the previous flu season, which was the deadliest in decades, with more than 443,000 flu-related deaths in the United States.
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Why you should consider getting a flu shot The most important response to seasonal flu, according to the CDC, is for everyone 6 months or older to get vaccinated.
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How to speed up flu recoveryWhen it comes down to it, when you have the flu, you should be more worried about the fluid you're lacking rather than nutrients.
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This helps explain why the 2014-15 flu season had some of the highest percentages of hospitalizations and deaths from influenza compared to the five flu seasons before it.
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Federal health officials warned Friday that this year's flu outbreak is more severe than any other since the 2628 swine flu pandemic, and that its intensity is still increasing.
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"If you replaced depression or suicide with the flu, then you'd see a flu shot warning on every street corner, urging us it's a public health crisis," Prinstein says.
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About 85 percent of flu-like illness is caused not by the flu but by any of approximately 200 viral and bacterial pathogens which are unscathed by the vaccine.
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Instead of relying on people to get vaccinated every year, scientists are getting closer to a flu vaccine that would last through multiple seasons, called a universal flu vaccine.
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According to a 2017 report, during a flu wave, there was up to a 40% drop in flu rates in cities and states that have passed paid sick days.
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"The Spanish flu is one of the worst, if not the worst, pandemic humanity ever went through, and it's really anomalous in the history of flu pandemics," she explains.
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As global research on flu slowly increases, studies are beginning to show that the burden of life-threatening flu is more concentrated in developing countries than was originally thought.
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Since December, three children confined at the border have died of the flu, according to a letter sent to Congress by physicians before the flu-vaccine policy was disclosed.
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High school boy had flu-like symptoms The high school boy in Snohomish County became ill with flu-like symptoms last Monday, the student's family said in a statement.
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Flu shots are mandatory for all staff, there are hand sanitizer stations around every corner, and staff and volunteers with symptoms of the flu are asked to stay home.
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It is believed that the virus responsible for the Asian flu evolved and reemerged 10 years later into this so-called "Hong Kong flu," resulting in the H3N2 pandemic.
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There is no flu vaccine approved for use in children younger than 6 months, but the C.D.C. recommends that everyone older than that get a flu shot every year.
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By all accounts, the US 2017-18 flu season ranks among the most severe in recent decades, with high rates of flu-like illness hitting all regions at once.
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This is the highest number of child flu deaths at this point in the season since the CDC started keeping records in 2004, except for the 2009 flu pandemic.
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"We are currently in the midst of a very active flu season, with much of the country experiencing widespread and intense flu activity," CDC Director Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald said.
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By contrast, the highly transmissible H275N13 "swine flu" pandemic of 21 killed about 21918,22009, fewer than seasonal flu normally does, and had a relatively low fatality rate, estimated at .
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Now, coronavirus is spreading fast in a country that was already experiencing a slowdown from the swine flu and an outbreak of avian flu that could reduce chicken flocks.
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Last weekend, laboratory tests in China ruled out SARS; the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS; the flu; bird flu; adenoviruses; and other common pathogens that cause pneumonia.
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Researchers found the reduced movement of people didn't stop the spread of the flu; it delayed it by a couple of weeks and led to a prolonged flu season.
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Flu vaccines become available at the end of the summer, and the CDC recommends getting one by the end of October to protect against flu in the upcoming winter.
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Individuals with minor flu or flu-like symptoms should refrain from going to the emergency room and instead call their primary health care providers, to avoid overstressing community resources.
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Thousands of flu deaths every year Every year, the flu affects 9.3 million to 13 million Americans, and 12,000 to 79,000 die from the illness, according to the CDC.
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Scientists estimated a 7% reduction in the flu hospitalization rate and a 26% reduction in the flu intensive care admission rate for the fourth week compared to the last.
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At least two people have died from bird flu on the mainland and five have been infected so far this winter, the season when bird flu most frequently occurs.
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A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee will consider whether to change the flu vaccine for next year as the country faces a worse-than-expected flu season.
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The ever-morphing nature of type A viruses is the main reason why flu can be so deadly and why we need to get different flu shots every season.
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Sixty nine percent of the 332 people in the study who had a heart attack following a flu diagnosis had not gotten a flu shot, according to the study.
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Palmer: This, at first, was always being described [in comparison to] the flu — whether this was going to be worse than the flu — why do you think that was?
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Symptoms of equine flu, like nasal discharge, elevated temperature and cough, are much the same as for human flu, as is the treatment — rest, and drugs to treat symptoms.
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Public health officials anticipate that flu viruses will continue to circulate for a few more months — though the latest data suggest we may be hitting peak flu season soon.
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" - Swank, 22 "Battling avian flu in hazmat suits.
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"The doctors told us that she had the flu and then the flu opened up the gates for MRSA to set in and she had walking pneumonia," Lundin told KGW8.
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The flu shot isn't perfect, and it's possible to get the flu even if you've been vaccinated, but if you do, your symptoms will most likely be much less severe.
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The CDC reports that the flu vaccine lessens the chance that someone catches the virus by 10 to 60 percent and doesn't guarantee that someone will not catch the flu.
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According to the Australia Government Department of Health, there were 233,453 confirmed cases of the flu and 745 flu-related deaths, which was a dramatic increase from the previous year.
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H22N23 also mutates quickly, so the "reference strain" included in the flu shot may differ slightly from the H22N2 strain that shows up during flu season, lowering the vaccine's effectiveness.
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The CDC furloughed the employees in charge of its flu-tracking efforts during the last shutdown, which spanned 16 days in October 2013, toward the beginning of that flu season.
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As it does every year, the CDC is urging people — especially seniors and those who work in office environments (where the flu can spread quickly) to get a flu shot.
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But it is too soon to know what kind of flu season we are in store for, said Dr. Joseph Bresee, chief of epidemiology in the flu division at CDC.
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Recent years were pretty bad, so this flu season could end up looking good by comparison, or the number of flu cases could catch up with those of previous seasons.
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Given the likelihood that cases of flu will continue to increase over the next several weeks, Bresee recommends that everyone who hasn't had a flu shot yet get one immediately.
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This advance could prevent the spread of avian flu outbreaks within poultry flocks and has the potential to reduce the threat of a bird flu epidemic in the human population.
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Yet even if you already had your flu shot back in the fall when experts recommend getting vaccinated, you might find yourself wondering: Should I get a second flu shot?
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The CDC, meanwhile, would be unable to support its annual seasonal flu program during one of the most severe flu outbreaks in recent history and could stop tracking disease outbreaks.
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Nineteen states have high levels of flu activity, and 13 flu-related pediatric deaths have been reported during the current season so far, according to numbers the CDC released Friday.
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When this population receives a regular-dose flu shot, they may not produce as many protective antibodies and therefore are at a higher risk of getting sick with the flu.
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The flu vaccine doesn't work immediatelyAfter getting your flu vaccine, it can take the average healthy adult's immune system up to two weeks to build up enough antibodies for protection.
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The last time life expectancy for whites dropped was in 2005, around the time of a particularly severe flu season, though it is not clear that flu caused the decline.
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For those who received flu shots in the past two flu seasons, their chance of getting the virus dropped 40 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The agency said early results show that flu vaccine has reduced the risk of having to go to the doctor due to flu by 36 percent overall through Feb. 3.
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For this year and last year, the flu season was considered to be active when 2.2% of all Americans who visited the doctor in a given week had flu symptoms.
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What's next: Health officials at a congressional hearing Thursday said after this rough flu season, they are working on better flu vaccine methods (per STAT) and antiviral medications (via CNN).
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Their findings indicate that the flu can spread more easily than we thought, so yes, you really should stay home as soon as you start to feel the flu—please.
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According to the CDC, almost everyone over 6 months of age should aim to get the flu vaccine each year by the end of October before flu season ramps up.
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The coronavirus seems more deadly than most strains of the flu, and while there are widely available treatments and vaccines for the flu, none are ready yet for the coronavirus.
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The Spanish flu, unusually for an influenza, was less lethal for older people, perhaps because a similar 1830s flu outbreak granted older people still alive in 1918 some limited immunity.
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And decades before the first flu vaccine, doctors (and indeed, prematurely drafted medical students) continued their work during the 1918 flu pandemic that infected 500 million people around the world.
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A major legacy of the swine flu may have been how it exposed the persistent vulnerability of many countries with advanced healthcare systems to a fast-moving, flu-like outbreak.
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Babies and children who are six months to eight years old when first immunized need two flu shot doses about one month apart to adequately protect them from the flu.
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A person can also get the flu by touching a surface or object that has flu virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes.
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Over the past week, the state has diagnosed a record high number of flu cases and hospitalizations, with 215,22009 New Yorkers being hospitalized with confirmed flu, according to Cuomo's office.
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"Even if you get the flu, having received the flu vaccine may help you in terms of not having as serious a course or as devastating a course," she said.
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Hemagglutinin, a spike-shaped protein, attaches the flu to the host cell and neuraminidase cleaves the flu off the cell when it is ready to jump to a neighboring cell.
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It's called "swine flu" because lab tests showed it to be similar to a flu virus most commonly found in pigs, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The current recommendations for reasonable protection against coronavirus from the CDC, which were repeated by Perl and Adalja, involve getting a flu shot (it's flu season!!) and washing your hands.
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Compared with flu A, flu B is relatively stable and doesn't change as much from year to year, so many adults have immunity to it from infections earlier in life.
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Still, Schuchat noted that levels of flu-related illness across the nation are reaching peaks observed during the H1N7163 pandemic season in 2009, though this year's flu is not pandemic.
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BC has added the virus to its flu surveillance program, which tests a sample of patients seen by a selected group of clinicians to better understand how the flu spreads.
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BC has added the virus to its flu surveillance program, which tests a sample of patients seen by a selected group of clinicians to better understand how the flu spreads.
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In another sign of confusion at the agency, CDC changed their plans late on Friday regarding their flu surveillance program, which is monitoring this year's unusually severe seasonal flu epidemic.
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Flu test results The current flu outbreak is a mixture of three strains: H23N2130, H2000N0003, and influenza B. The most active and dangerous strain, H2000N2261, has started to decline in lab reports, while influenza B infections have started to ramp up, prolonging the flu season, which could last for an estimated 2000 weeks.
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The flu can be fatal Understanding how the flu operates is vital to defeating it: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 36,400 to 61,200 people died from the flu in the United States between October 2018 and May 2019, and more than half a million people were hospitalized.
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Genetic investigations "can tell us how flu viruses are 'related' to one another, how flu viruses are evolving, and they can suggest how well an influenza flu vaccine might protect against a particular influenza virus," said Rebekah Stewart Schicker, an author of the study and an epidemic intelligence service officer at the CDC.
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During last week's briefing of the President's Coronavirus Task Force, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the United States' top infectious disease doctor and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, noted there are thousands of flu deaths and more than 100,000 flu hospitalizations already in the United States this flu season.
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I remember in 20203 or '10, one of these many years I worked there, when we had ... there was a swine flu epidemic and the government's job was to convince people to get a flu vaccine, to undertake hygiene measures to protect themselves and their children from the flu, which was killing people.
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Some experts have blamed the intensity of this year's flu in part on a particularly poor vaccine, which was mainly based on research in Australia, where the flu season begins earlier.
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"If you can predict the start of the annual epidemics of the flu and other respiratory viruses, you can use this knowledge to promote campaigns for the flu vaccine," he said.
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The CDC noted a vet who caught H7N2 bird flu from cats infected at a new York City animal shelter — and a patient in Iowa caught H1N2 flu from a pig.
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The New Jersey Department of Health confirmed Tuesday that a child died of the flu, the first of the season, and said there were high levels of flu throughout the state.
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Though annual flu vaccines aren't foolproof -- scientists and doctors can't be sure which strain will reign each flu season -- they're the best way to avoid the infection and stop its spread.
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The CDC recommends that pregnant women get the flu shot during any trimester since they are more susceptible to developing a severe illness from the flu than women who aren't pregnant.
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The latest move to raise the alert follows Saturday's discovery of avian flu in a backyard flock of farm birds on the southern island of Jeju, rekindling bird flu fears nationwide.
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If you have flu symptoms — a fever and/or chills, body aches, coughing, runny nose, sore throat — or suspect you have the flu, go to the doctor as soon as possible.
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Stomach flu isn't flu at all; it's an intestinal infection, which can be caused by viruses like norovirus or bacteria from food, and it leads to diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and fever.
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THE 103-210 flu season, which lasts, roughly, for the duration of the northern hemisphere's autumn and winter, may end up being as deadly as the swine-flu pandemic of 230.
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Some universal flu shot candidates are already being tested in people, and the companies that figure out how to make a universal flu shot stand to make a lot of money.
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The authors said that doctors should continue to offer the vaccine because the flu season is still ongoing and there might be other flu strains that circulate later in the season.
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Also worth watching: Australia just had one of their worst flu seasons on record, and the strains that circulated there are slated to be prevalent in the U.S. this flu season.
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It also missed a public relations opportunity — the 100th anniversary of the 1918 Spanish flu and the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Hong Kong flu, both of which were very deadly.
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Bottom line: Your best bet for guarding yourself against the many flu viruses, and preventing getting the flu more than once a year, or at all, is getting vaccinated every year.
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He took issue with the idea that the flu is a more serious threat, saying the death toll from coronavirus could be much higher than that of a severe flu season.
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The second wave of the flu, in particular, had more brutal effects than typical influenza, not least because it was likelier than the ordinary flu to be joined by bacterial pneumonia.
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The 1918 flu pandemic that infected over a quarter of the world's population is still referred to as "the Spanish Flu," even though there's no consensus on where that outbreak originated.
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As of the 225-17 flu season, those with a history of "egg allergies of any severity" may receive any licensed flu vaccine appropriate for their age group, the C.D.C. says.
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Scientists worry that there is significant risk in the coming years and decades of a global flu outbreak similar to the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic that claimed 50-100 million lives.
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My first Google search brought me to yearly C.D.C. flu-vaccine coverage statistics, and for the last four years, the percentage of flu-vaccinated adults has been in the low 20043s.
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"We put nurses into Uber vehicles and delivered flu shots to where people were," he said, and people signed up in droves — even those who had never had flu shots before.
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And in 2009, a new H1N1 flu virus containing genes from both American and Eurasian pigs emerged in Mexico, prompting scary "swine flu" headlines and the declaration of a health emergency.
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Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and her family has been self-quarantining after she had flu-like symptoms, and testing negative for the flu and strep-throat, NBC News reported.
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Stopping the flu and the coronavirus from spreadingThe flu and the coronavirus spread in the same way: via viral particles that travel between people in tiny droplets of saliva or mucus.
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Stopping the flu and the coronavirus from spreadingThe flu and the coronavirus spread in the same way: via viral particles that travel between people in tiny droplets or saliva and mucus.
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They say that the annual flu is likely a greater threat, given that some 10,000 people in the US have died from the flu this season alone, according to the CDC.
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On the rise now is the A(H20173N1)pdm09 strain, which is a descendant of the pandemic "swine flu" that first appeared in 2009 and then morphed into a seasonal flu.
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The CDC estimates that this flu season, which started on September 29, there have been at least 13 million cases of the flu in the US, 120,000 hospitalizations and 6,600 deaths.
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Across California and the rest of the US, the widespread flu season has led to some temporary shortages of flu medications (such as Tamiflu) in certain pharmacies, according to the CDC.
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In these cities, flu occurred throughout the season, with cases seen both early and late, despite the weather being less optimal for spreading flu germs at those early and late times.
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Seven more children died of the flu this week, bringing the total number of child deaths to 37 this flu season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Friday.
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As in many areas around the United States this year, the flu has made an early appearance along the Southwest border, with high levels of flu activity in Texas and Arizona.
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Recent reports indicate that Customs and Border Patrol rejected a CDC recommendation to administer flu shots to people in its custody; two children later died of flu in the agency's facilities.
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However, a 22015-216 influenza vaccine effectiveness study found FluMist to be overall 22009% effective -- with zero effectiveness against one strain of flu -- compared with the flu shot's overall 21% effectiveness.
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According to the latest surveillance data from US surveillance programs, around 22020 percent to 23 percent of the flu viruses analyzed from patients this flu season have been type B viruses.
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This year's flu vaccine is preventing about 36% of flu cases in vaccinated people but is working better, at a rate of about 59%, in young children, the CDC reported Thursday.
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It's also the case that the 2009 H1N1 flu virus, which was extremely deadly globaly, originated in North America, as did, I understand, the so-called Spanish flu back in 1918.
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Once the immune system learns what a flu virus looks like — whether from a vaccine or a past infection — it seeks out and destroys flu viruses before they enter more cells.
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It's true that flu vaccines don't work spectacularly well, at least according to the best evidence we have (and most of the evidence on flu vaccines is of poor methodological quality).
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But even if you get sick, a flu shot will reduce the number of days you are sick and drastically lower the chances you will be hospitalized or die from flu.
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HAWTHORNE, California — I've had a terrible flu all week.
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The fourth — urumin — was safe and killed flu viruses.
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" Trump on the Spanish Flu: "It was really something.
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" By praying and saying "I'll never have the flu.
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"We can probably argue about whether getting one flu shot that's going to protect you from everything for life is realistic, but we will certainly be getting improved flu vaccines as a result of this push for the universal flu vaccination," said Webby, who believes that "increased duration of immunity following vaccination" will be discovered.
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"A mild illness is not a contraindication to getting the flu shot, and delaying it can potentially result in a missed opportunity for vaccination and related protection against flu," Dr. Gaur says.
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The market has caught the flu that everybody else has and like everybody else's flu, I don't think its terminal, but it'll be something we'll have to live with for a while.
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By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) - - Pregnant women who get the flu, or a flu vaccine, are not increasing their baby's risk for an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a new study suggests.
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"Getting the flu vaccine is better than getting the flu," said Dr. Deborah Lehman, a professor of pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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While we can't be 100 percent certain of why last year's flu season was so bad, it's worth reiterating that getting a vaccine is a pretty surefire way to avoid the flu.
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Still, given that the flu is estimated to have killed at least 80,000 people in the U.S. last winter, one of the deadliest flu seasons ever seen, every little bit should help.
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Health regulators have been trying to combat flu outbreaks in the United States and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first new flu medication in nearly two decades last year.
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At least 140,000 people have been hospitalized with complications from the flu, and the number is expected to rise as flu activity has been elevated for 11 weeks and will likely continue.
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But whereas the flu virus' genes change via a process called antigenic drift, coronaviruses are "somewhat less prone to mutation than flu," Stephen Morse, an epidemiologist at Columbia University, told Business Insider.
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The worst flu pandemic in history occurred in 1918–1919 (the Spanish flu), which infected about 3903 million people or one-third of the world's population, and killed an estimated 50 million.
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Though flu vaccine campaigns begin as early as August, several studies published in recent years show the flu vaccine's effectiveness actually declines over time in the months after the shot is given.
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For a more detailed breakdown on the difference between cold and flu, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a very useful infographic: And what about "stomach flu," you may wonder?
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The CDC recommends the flu vaccination, which can lessen the chance that someone catches the virus by 10 to 60 percent (though it doesn't guarantee that someone will not catch the flu).
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Tierno says sharing a blunt exposes you to potentially contracting the flu, Herpes Simplex Virus 1, strep throat, Staphylococcus infections, mononucleosis, meningitis, and the gastrointestinal assassin itself: norovirus, aka the stomach flu.
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The longer version is that flu vaccination is just about the only way we have available to prevent the flu (antivirals can help once you've got it, but they're not wonder drugs).
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Before each upcoming flu season, scientists at the World Health Organization play a guessing game, trying to predict which strains of A and B flu viruses will most circulate in the environment.
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The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases also has a strategic plan for developing a universal flu vaccine that would protect against multiple subtypes of flu for at least one year.
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Broadly, there are deaths caused by the flu itself, and deaths caused or aided by the bacteria that take advantage of the opening in the immune system's defenses created by the flu.
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How the CDC forecasts the flu: Matthew Biggerstaff, epidemiologist in CDC's influenza division, tells Axios the CDC started a competition five years ago for non-government institutions to predict the flu season.
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Sufficiently capable actors could work to resurrect the deadliest pathogens of the past, like smallpox or Spanish flu, or modify existing pathogens such as bird flu to be more contagious and lethal.
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Although your baby can get sick if you get something like the flu, which is why we tell you to get a flu shot, to prevent your baby from getting really sick.
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Multiple studies show that people who get the flu vaccine are less likely to become seriously ill; with the flu shot onboard, the risk of being hospitalized goes down by 37 percent.
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On average, about 1 in 1,000 people who get flu die from it -- mostly the elderly and people with underlying health conditions, but flu sometimes kills healthy young people and pregnant women.
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According to the study published in the Public Library of Science, flu pandemics are most likely to occur during the late-spring to early-summer months, after the seasonal flu has peaked.
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Same thing with flu — there's a safe flu vaccine, not always perfect, but it lowers your odds of getting the disease, and of getting really sick if you do get the disease.
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We are now a century away from the worst flu pandemic in history, the 1918 Spanish flu that infected 500 million people worldwide, killing as many as 50 million, including 675,000 Americans.
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The flu vaccine is the best way to avoid getting the disease, and those who do fall ill are less likely to develop severe flu symptoms that lead to hospitalization or death.
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A major legacy of the Swine Flu (2009 - 2010) may have been how it exposed the persistent vulnerability of many countries with advanced healthcare systems to a fast-moving, flu-like outbreak.
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But according to the New Mexico Department of Health, there were two pediatric flu deaths in the 2018-2019 flu season -- one child was 16 and the other was 1 year old.
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The US sees 140,20173 to 710,000 flu-related hospitalizations and 12,000 to 56,000 flu-related deaths each year, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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February 24, 2020 With high levels of flu activity being reported in 48 U.S. states, CNN 10 kicks off the week with a by-the-numbers look at flu season so far.
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Thus far, based on limited testing data, this season's flu shot does not look like a good match for the B Victoria flu and may not be very effective, the C.D.C. said.
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Rather than rushing out to buy masks and fretting over the unlikely chance of contracting the coronavirus, Americans should get their flu shots, and wash their hands often to avoid the flu.
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This is why there are so many strains or subtypes of flu out in the community, and why we are not perfectly defended against this virus even when we take flu vaccine.
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The CDC hasn't finished totaling the fatalities from the 2018-19 flu season, but the 85033-18 flu was particularly deadly, killing over 80,000 people in the U.S. View the discussion thread.
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Total flu fatalities during the most recent season included the deaths of 180 children, which exceeds the previous record high of 171 during a non-pandemic flu season, according to the CDC.
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Adams stressed that flu is "especially deadly for older adults, pregnant women, people with chronic conditions and children" and he recommended everyone take additional steps to avoid the flu this coming season.
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I'd rather you didn't but the truth is, you can get your flu vaccine until late November, and assure you will be protected during that heightened flu period that begins in December.
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It is working to develop a universal flu vaccine, which the program describes as a vaccine that provides robust, long-lasting protection against multiple subtypes of flu, rather than a select few.
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Conspiracy theories have abounded about the disappearance, including one internet rumor that Cunningham was a whistle-blower who had warned about the flu shot being responsible for this year's deadly flu season.
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If successfully developed, scientists would no longer have to guess which flu strains will be circulating in the following year, and one shot would protect people for more than one flu season.
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The flu season has already hit the U.S. hard, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said, with dozens of states reporting rising numbers of doctor visits for flu-like symptoms.
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It's contributed to a particularly bad flu season, with outpatient visits to hospitals and emergency departments by patients with influenza-like illness reaching levels not seen since the 2009 swine flu pandemic.
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In a press conference Thursday about flu vaccines, acting CDC director Anne Schuchat said the flu season is far from over, even after 12 weeks of unusually persistent coast-to-coast misery.
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Flu specialists from around the world gathered in Geneva this week to assess the global influenza situation and discuss with vaccine companies which viral strains should be in next winter's flu shots.
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But he said flu is "sneaky" and "devilish," making it difficult -- sometimes impossible -- to pick out the relative few who will die of the flu among the thousands who will recover easily.
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Now, with the United States in the throes of one of the worst flu seasons in several years, demand for the larger volume bags - used to hydrate flu patients - has increased dramatically.
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Effects per 10,000 people who got flu in 2017-18 4,620 required medical attention 180 hospitalized 103 Guillain-Barré 14 deaths Syndrome1 Effects per 10,000 people who get the flu vaccine 0.01 to 0.03 0.016 Guillain-Barré Syndrome1 allergic reactions Effects per 10,0003 people who got flu in 2017-18 4,620 required medical attention 180 hospitalized 0.17 Guillain-Barré Syndrome1 14 deaths Effects per 10,103 people who get the flu vaccine 0.01 to 0.03 0.016 Guillain-Barré Syndrome1 allergic reactions Effects per 10,000 people who got flu in 2017-18 Effects per 10,0003 people who get the flu vaccine 4,620 required medical attention 180 hospitalized 0.17 Guillain-Barré 0.01 to 0.03 0.016 Guillain-Barré Syndrome1 allergic reactions 14 deaths Syndrome33 Effects per 10,000 people who got flu in 2017-18 Effects per 10,000 people who get the flu vaccine 4,620 required medical attention 180 hospitalized 4203 0.01 to 0.03 0.016 Guillain-Barré Syndrome1 Guillain-Barré Syndrome1 allergic reactions 14 deaths Australia is positioned to effectively eliminate cervical cancer over the next two decades, through a vaccination campaign and increased cervical screenings.
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" After avian flu had spread from Asia to Europe in 2411, Mike Leavitt, US secretary of state for the Department of Health and Human Services, observed, "Some will say this discussion of the Avian Flu is an overreaction… The reality is that if the H222N21.4 pandemic virus does not trigger pandemic flu, there will be another virus that will.
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The study, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, tracked flu cases among 1,700 children and adults across the US. They found the flu shot was 36 percent effective overall, meaning it reduced a person's risk of getting sick with flu and going to a doctor's office by about a third.
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A half-dozen flu pandemics — including those of 1889, 1918 (the Spanish flu), 1957, 1968 and 2009 (the swine flu) — were all first detected between late March and late July, according to a study published recently in PLOS Computational Biology by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and the Institute for Disease Modeling in Bellevue, Wash.
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The study, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, tracked flu cases among 22,265 children and adults across the US. They found the flu shot was 36 percent effective overall, meaning it reduced a person's risk of getting sick with flu and going to a doctor's office by about a third.
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"They can review your signs and symptoms and do a flu swab — if the flu is ruled out, they can still give you the right recommendations for over-the-counter medications," Elliott said.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico has seen a sharp jump in cases of the virus H1N1, popularly known as swine flu, killing 68 people so far this flu season, according to health ministry data.
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Avoiding the flu or catching a cold in the winter months can be tough, but there is something you can do in addition to getting the flu shot and washing your hands. Relax.
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So basically, the flu shot exposes your body to an inactivated (or non-infectious) version of the virus so your body can develop protective antibodies without you having to battle the actual flu.
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The flu also mutates rapidly, Eiras says, which means that during those six months between the time scientists make a prediction and when the flu shot is ready, the prevailing strain might change.
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The first indication of how well the flu vaccine is working this season in America just came out — and it may help explain why this year's flu season is milder than last year's.
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If you've had a severe, potentially life-threatening allergic reaction called anaphylaxis to the flu vaccine, regardless of which component is responsible, then you shouldn't get a flu shot, according to the CDC.
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He leads one of several labs across the country that analyze samples from hospitalized flu patients and feed their findings to the CDC, which in turn compiles national snapshots of the flu season.
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In fact, both strains of dog flu in the US have a vaccine — which lowers a dog's risk of getting sick and helps a pup get through the flu if it gets infected.
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It's difficult to predict whether or not the flu vaccine in a given year will match well with the strains of flu viruses circulating in the general population, according to another CDC publication.
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Hong Kong has seen outbreaks of several diseases since at least the 1960s, including an influenza pandemic in 1968, avian flu in 1997, SARS in 2003, and a swine flu outbreak in 2009.
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What's good, he said, is that it also kills flu viruses that have mutated to resist the effects of antiviral drugs such as Tamiflu, which attack flu viruses at another point, called neuraminidase.
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The elderly, who are often the victims in flu season, did relatively well, perhaps because they had lived through a related strain of flu 30 years earlier, and therefore had some protective immunity.
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Babies of unvaccinated women were 70 percent more likely to have a laboratory-confirmed case of flu, and 81 percent more likely to be hospitalized for flu before they were 6 months old.
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Yet among children, the nasal spray appeared to have reduced effectiveness against the flu, compared with the shot, in past flu seasons, according to a study published in the journal Pediatrics on Monday.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that last year's flu vaccine was 60 percent effective — meaning that those who got it had a 60 percent lower chance of getting the flu.
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Given the absence of hard and substantial evidence that not getting a flu shot could hurt the patients, there should not be penalty for healthcare staff who refuse to get the flu vaccination.
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Though rare, flu shots can cause allergic reactions, and a pregnant woman shouldn't receive a flu shot if she is severely allergic to a component of the vaccine, like an allergy to eggs.
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A 2013 study of workers in Allegheny County, Pa., estimated that allowing them to take up to two paid "flu days" would have reduced workplace transmission of the flu by roughly 39 percent.
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The test is an important step toward creating a type of flu vaccine that scientists have long sought — one that can shield against whatever type of flu strain people happen to pick up.
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For many more, getting the flu meant hospitalization, lost work or school time and contracting other serious illnesses such as pneumonia because they were left more vulnerable to other infections by the flu.
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"Normal flu, if I get that, I'm going to infect on average 1.3, 1.4 people ... by the time it's happened 10 times, I've been responsibly for about 14 cases of flu," Montgomery said.
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A child in Florida who had not received the flu vaccine died from the virus, state officials announced on Monday, the first influenza-related pediatric death reported in the country this flu season.
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The agency estimates the number of flu infections in the US via its influenza surveillance system, which gathers flu data from state and local partners, then projects nationwide totals using infectious-disease models.
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More people actually died from the flu than in fighting World War I. The flu, which lasted a year, lowered the average life expectancy in the United States by more than 12 years.
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Additionally, taking normal flu season precautions, like washing your hands after coming into contact with other people and getting the flu shot, can help to make sure that you're otherwise in tiptop shape.
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And, although it's unlikely for most healthy people, between approximately 12,000 to 79,000 people die of the flu each flu season in the U.S., according to the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention.
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"There's some evidence that getting a flu shot too soon in the season (in August or September, for example) might leave you with waning immunity to flu in January and February," he says.
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Seven people under the age of 18 died of the flu last week, bringing the total number to 39 since the flu season began at the end of September, according to the CDC.
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While there's not one state in particular seeing the worst or higher flu activity than others, "we are seeing some signs that flu is on the decline in the West," CDC's Nordlund said.
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The two firms are set to become intertwined further: the same TechCrunch report added that Shoo the Flu will soon become a part of Flu Lab, though a precise date is not given.
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In a statement, the company said that in nonclinical studies conducted in the laboratory and on mice, the experimental drug demonstrated efficacy against seasonal flu strains as well as Tamiflu-resistant flu strains.
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One reason the bellwether for pandemics is influenza is the fear of having a higher-mortality flu, when we know that flu spreads so rapidly and infects so many people around the world.
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The swine flu generated a similar level of panic to what we're seeing with the coronavirus today, and as with swine flu, the conversation about the new coronavirus outbreak often focuses on fatalities.
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But a look at the CDC data shows that flu deaths actually spiked during the 2000-1003 flu season, rising from about 2100,22.4 the year before to more than 402,000 post-9/11.
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Tens of thousands of Americans die of flu every yearAt least 15 million Americans have caught the flu in the last four months; nearly a quarter million of them went to the hospital.
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Describing flu vaccination and prevention as "important public health causes for the entire Trump Administration," Azar walked through the numbers from a survey NFID conducted about flu vaccination rates and attitudes in August.
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Gates said that their talk about a universal flu vaccine prompted Trump to call Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, during their meeting to ask about the universal flu vaccine.
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Later in the season you didn't need a flu shot because by later in the season you'd already had the flu — a ghastly affliction that involved a midnight visit to the emergency room.
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This winter's flu season is turning into a "moderately severe" one that might get worse because of an imperfect vaccine and steady cold weather, flu experts and public health officials said this week.
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Should you still get the flu shot if you're sick?
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Today, the production of flu vaccines is a global endeavor.
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"The flu is complex and difficult to predict," said Schuchat.
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That's why fresh flu vaccine cocktails are needed each year.
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Certain cold and flu medicines are also a good bet.
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Flu activity is "high" to "extremely high" in 24 regions.
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"We call a lot of things the flu," Topham said.
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Are residents using the popup clinic when flu season strikes?
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You are more likely to get sick with the flu.
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So does this mean you can skip the flu shot?
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Plus, US hospitals are already facing a bad flu season.
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All are vulnerable to the worst effects of the flu.
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Past flu seasons have lasted as long as 20 weeks.
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Baseball players at the height of the Spanish flu, 1918.
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In North Texas, DSA is sponsoring free flu vaccine clinics.
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You absolutely need to get the flu shot this year.
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The flu is deadly — and it can kill healthy adults.
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Hospitalizations for flu symptoms also increased, largely among the elderly.
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Listen, I'm really sorry, but I've got the stomach flu.
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On day 12 I got the stomach flu which sucked!
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They include shots with either three of four flu strains.
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The flu virus's proteins recognize a glycan called sialic acid.
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Your pandemic flu shot may come in the mail (Axios).
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Bill Gates announces $12 million for universal flu vaccine (Axios).
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It may even feel like a bad flu, Steinbaum notes.
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She was then diagnosed with the flu and given medication.
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The flu can kill you in a few different ways.
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For the most part, the flu shot does its job.
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During mild seasons, around 12,000 people die of the flu.
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"During cold and flu season, it's not rude!" he said.
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Well, yes and yes, but let's focus on flu vaccines.
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However, that virus has Eurasian lineage, U.S. flu experts said.
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" Copeland also insists that "we don't have a flu season.
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It's the least wonderful time of the year: flu season.
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Why do we need a new flu vaccine every year?
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The 22019 Spanish flu killed 50 million people, for instance.
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A military hospital during the Spanish flu pandemic in 22013.
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Empty store shelves during Mexico's swine flu epidemic in 20133.
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Read these stories next: Is Carb Flu Really A Thing?
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But please, if nothing else, get your flu shot, friends.
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"During cold and flu season, it's not rude!" he reassures.
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I get blood taken and a flu shot ($30 copay).
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Already, there have been many tragic flu deaths seen stateside.
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What helps makes a flu strain pandemic is its novelty.
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The peak of flu season comes between December and February.
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Often times the tests are during flu and allergy season.
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"The flu can be an amazing diet," Kardashian West wrote.
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As it turns out, Irving didn't really have the flu.
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Seasonal flu vaccines have included the H43N1 virus since 2010.
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The flu shot is a miracle, but an imperfect one.
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I haven't had a flu shot in that entire time.
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Make people around you aware that the flu is deadly.
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"Flu clearly is a very, very serious infection," Schaffner said.
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" The doctor explained that flu "kills in basically two ways.
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Wild migrating birds can transmit bird flu to farmed poultry.
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We are not prepared for the next pandemic flu virus.
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The birds have lots of flu strains in their guts.
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It may help you survive flu season without getting sick.
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Louise gets the flu and has a loopy fever dream.
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The US spends less than $2 billion on flu vaccines.
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Next time you visit Walgreens, consider getting a flu shot.
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In fact, it's always flu season somewhere in the world.
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But that doesn't mean you can't still get the flu.
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Usually, a flu fever will last three to five days.
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Last year, he got two flu shots: belt, then suspenders.
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Seven states and Puerto Rico are experiencing moderate flu activity.
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Paid sick leave has other benefits besides reducing flu deaths.
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OF Kevin Kiermaier (flu like symptoms) did not start Friday.
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Walgreen's, CVS, and other major pharmacy chains offer flu shots.
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Flu cases are typically milder in the immunized, Blais says.
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The swine flu pandemic of 2009 is one recent example.
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Its newness meant that it could evade existing flu vaccines.
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Flu infection rates continued dropping during the week ending Feb.
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If it's the flu, it could be thousands of cases.
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Even if vaccinated, people had inadequate protection against the flu.
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Still, he said, everyone should get their annual flu shot.
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Give special flu shots that don't contain traces of egg.
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Flu vaccines will help protect you against the influenza virus.
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Like most medical products, flu vaccines can have side effects.
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Related stories:Yes, you can get a flu shot while pregnant.
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The definition of a universal flu vaccine is somewhat flexible.
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Cold and flu season spares few between now and spring.
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I would have said, 'Does anybody die of the flu?
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Coronavirus and flu symptoms can put you out of commission.
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Coronavirus and acute flu symptoms could get worse over time.
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Without a vaccine, the flu would be far more deadly.
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"Ask them how they did with swine flu," said Trump.
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That's roughly ten times the death rate of seasonal flu.
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" — SETH MEYERS "[Imitating Trump] A regular flu vaccine won't work?
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That makes it more contagious than say, the seasonal flu.
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Will it fade away in warm weather, like the flu?
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We don't shut down our economy because of the flu.
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They had the flu or a common cold, C.D.C. said.
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"More people die of the flu than die of ebola."
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That retained immunity can reduce the severity of flu symptoms.
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He said it was much more severe than the flu.
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Kroger is capping purchases of cold, flu and sanitary products.
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Finally, there have been many comparisons of coronavirus to flu.
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And actually this year we're having a bad flu system.
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We saw them with, I think, the 2009 flu pandemic.
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Worldwide, up to 575,400 people died from pandemic swine flu.
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" Facts First: You cannot accurately call the coronavirus "a flu.
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We're long overdue for a catastrophic flu pandemic, Hoffman added.
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Last year's flu season was the worst in a decade.
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