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...began offering influenza shots to all Harvard affiliates at its Holyoke Center location. This service will continue through mid-January...
Rosenthal warned students not to take the sickness lightly. He said that influenza is a serious disease and has travelled west from Asia...
...Influenza is a very debilitating illness that can put you out from one week to two weeks,” he said...
There are good reasons to give toddlers flu shots. Influenza is a serious disease that kills an average of 36,000 Americans a year. Recent studies have shown that children are at higher risk than we thought and that they can significantly benefit from vaccinations. The shots won't be easy to administer; this age group typically needs two doses the first time around--one in October, a second in November. It is hard enough to get parents to take kids in for even one visit once flu season strikes...
Your article on SARS was informative, but you might have noted that while the Spanish-influenza epidemic of 1918-19 killed more people than died in all of World War I, it disappeared as quickly and mysteriously as it came on, within a year, and hasn't been a problem since. Spanish influenza and SARS may have in common a rapidly changing genetic sequence that would cause SARS to hit a biological dead end. I certainly hope it does. RICK JASPER Las Vegas...