As October approaches, so
too does the cold and flu season. This year, a few so-called weather
'experts' are predicting a very hard winter! And so then, they are
also predicting to a potentially rough ride with the flu virus as the
two seem to often go hand in hand.
Author's
Note: This year might be a good year to get your flu shot
early, especially if you are in the over fifty crowd.
This years trivalent
vaccine will contain the following:
- an A/California/7/2009 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus
- an A/Switzerland/9715293/2013 (H3N2)-like virus
- a B/Phuket/3073/2013-like virus. (This is a B/Yamagata
lineage virus)
Whether or not this will work, considering that the vaccine was formulated six months ago, is the big question!
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