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...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...
...loved fishing and bow 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...
Alarmed Colorado parents rushed to get their kids vaccinated last week--which is a good idea. This year's vaccine was not designed to neutralize a virulent version of the Type A virus--the Fujian strain--that has surfaced in the West. But Dr. Niranjan Bhat, a flu expert at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says it will still provide some protection from the substrain and is still recommended for those over 50. And it's not too late to get a shot...
...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, and is now spreading across the rest of Europe. In France, a different strain, the "H3N2" variant, combined with gastroenteritis, has laid low up to 2 million people. Eleven children have died from a severe outbreak of flu in the U.S. Health authorities in Europe say the numbers are higher than average, but not excessively. They are at a loss to explain...
While a move to Allston might strain ties with the Longwood community, it would allow the school to forge stronger relationships with Cambridge-area schools like...