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Despite recent bioterrorism scares, UHS officials said they are more worried about students contracting influenza than anthrax...
...even among causes of death that we don't bring on ourselves, anthrax does not rate as a killer. 20,000 people die every year from influenza. That's a big killer. Even your regular lunch break poses more of a risk on your life than anthrax: The likelihood of getting hit by a car while crossing the street, or being killed by a drive-by shooter, or being struck by lightning, or dying from the smoke and exhaust we inhale every day, are much more real threats on our lives...
...column titled "Something to Sneeze About" [SKEPTICAL EYE, Nov. 13], Leon Jaroff wrote that like other homeopathic products, Oscillococcinum, which is used to treat influenza, is "basically worthless." Where did Jaroff receive his doctorate of homeopathy? Perhaps until he is educated in this area of healing he should take a middle-of-the-road approach and present both sides equally. I have been helped by homeopathy and other alternative health-care approaches when practitioners of traditional medicine told me to live with my problem. Maybe Jaroff should take a close look at how many pharmaceutical drugs and traditional medical approaches...
...millions of Americans will soon be turning to a dubious "remedy" widely available at health-food stores and pharmacies. It's called Oscillococcinum, a tongue-twister of a potion that, according to its label, provides "temporary relief of colds and flulike symptoms." It is the standard homeopathic treatment for influenza and goes for about $10 a box. But like other homeopathic products, it's basically worthless...
...EVADING INFLUENZA Other than a quarantine, how can you protect your family when one of your kids comes home with the flu? The answer may lie in Relenza, the first flu drug that's inhaled. Researchers say if a strict protocol is followed, Relenza can reduce the odds that the flu will spread within a family by 79%. Beginning with the first sign of the flu, the sick child must inhale Relenza twice a day for five days. Siblings and parents, meanwhile, should use it once a day for 10 days. Even better: get a flu shot in the first...