Thursday, September 17, 2015

Flu season 2015-16 is upon us!



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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