Showing posts with label Influenza. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Influenza. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Have you gotten your flu shot?

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It's only mid October and already clinics are bracing for flu troubles as cases are already on the march upwards! A recent article, I ...
Monday, December 4, 2017

It's early December and the flu is on the move!

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A number of factors may make the 2017-18 season for flu something rather special! Already, the bug is showing up in more states than is ...
Thursday, October 26, 2017

Disturbing news from Australia concerning the flu!

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Australia, the continent down under, has been going through the worst flu outbreak in its history. And now as the season winds on down ...
Monday, October 2, 2017

OK! So, now I'm sick!

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Monday, October 2 - Last November 3 (3026)  , I got my flu shot with no ill effects. This year (2017) I got a shot on Friday September 2...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

The 2017-18 flu season may be a bad one!

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One of the indicators for determining how severe the coming flu season will be is to just look at the opposite hemisphere to see what is ...
Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Flu season is right around the corner!

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The last eight years have seen relatively mild cases of the flu. Here's a few stats that might be helpful... 1918 Flu pandem...
Monday, January 25, 2016

Flu season 2015-16 a flop?

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The red line in the above graphic depicting the rate of influenza in Missouri tells the tale for the 2015-16 flu season! It all but fla...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

Ten things you can do to avoid the flu!

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Avoid crowded venues! Visits to grocery stores and shopping malls should be kept to a minimum. If you do venture out, try and go du...
Friday, December 19, 2014

WHO recommends changes to flu vaccine!

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The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday (Sept 25, 2014) recommended changing two of the three strains in trivalent influenza vacci...
Monday, January 14, 2013

The flu got me!

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After skating through the Holiday season pretty much unscathed, I had my comeuppance in mid January when I contracted the flu bug that...
Monday, January 7, 2013

Fluageddon: The coming killer epidemic!

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In the fall of the year 1918, a bad and terrible flu swept over the planet killing more people in America than were killed in the last...
Thursday, December 29, 2011

The Cold and Flu season is upon us!

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As the year 2011 comes to a grinding close, I have begun to focus on the year ahead and what that means. What is means is the start of...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Flu News for September 21, 2011

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Early Flu Outbreak in Algeria Sketchy reports are coming out of Algeria regarding a ' highly contagious seasonal influenza [that] is sp...
Sunday, September 18, 2011

Effects of a novel pandemic flu strain on socioeconomic conditions in the US!

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With most of the national attention focused on job creation and the economy these days, it's easy to see why not much press is being ...
Saturday, October 2, 2010

Flu season 2010 starts off in strange fashion!

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With the official start of the Flu season now just weeks away (October 15) here in the United States., reports by the CDC hint that somethin...