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...nation braces for what health experts predict will be a particularly severe influenza season, University Health Services (UHS) has bulked up its resources in an effort to provide as many students as possible with flu shots...
...starting to look as if this year's flu season could be a bad one. Influenza cases began a month early, a particularly nasty strain of the virus popped up too late to be included in vaccine preparations, and at least nine flu-stricken children in Colorado and Texas have died. Now comes word that vaccine manufacturers have shipped their entire inventory--enough for the usual quota of 80 million shots. But demand has been so high that some areas are beginning to see shortages...
...hunting, went to school healthy on Friday, Nov. 21. Three days later, the 8-year-old son of Scott and Carrieann Williams died of respiratory failure at Poudre Valley Hospital in nearby Fort Collins. The cause of his sudden death: infection by the Type A strain of the influenza virus. Joseph is one of four Colorado children who have died in a flu outbreak that has hit the nation's Western states unusually hard and unusually early--raising concerns among some health officials that this flu season could be one of the worst in recent years...
...Cough Near Me Chills? Fever? Sore throat? You could be about to join millions around the world who've fallen victim to the latest variants of the influenza bug. Just hope your virus isn't the vicious "Fujian flu," which originated in China at the start of the year and caused major outbreaks between June and August in New Zealand and Australia, where at one point around 30% of school-age children were affected. It arrived in Ireland in early September and soon spread to Britain, where it has killed six children. Simultaneously it appeared in Spain, Portugal and Norway...
Hate shots? FluMist, a new alternative vaccine for the influenza viruses that send millions of Americans back to bed every winter, is administered as a nasal spray. Approved by the FDA in June for healthy people ages 5 through 49, it triggers a buildup of antibodies in the upper respiratory tract--flu's favorite point of entry. The catch: FluMist costs three to four times as much as the shot, and most health-insurance companies won't cover it. INVENTORS Hunein Maassab and MedImmune Vaccines AVAILABILITY Now, about $50 a dose TO LEARN MORE flumist.com...