With concerns
about the seasonal flu dominating conversations and headlines, it's comforting to know that so many people appear to be so aware of the need to stop the spread of germs and increase personal hygiene, but one big question still remains:
Key facts
about seasonal flu vaccine.
Not exact matches
The nightly news reports
about the brutal
seasonal flu, now widespread across our great land, haven't jumpstarted efforts to build (and fund) such a plan.
For more information
about the
flu, visit: www.health.ny.gov/diseases/communicable/influenza /
seasonal
And some diseases that spread among people might turn out to be nearly impossible to predict using satellite and environmental data beyond what researchers already know
about seasonal cycles, like that for the
seasonal flu.
But WHO, following criticism from member countries that declaring phase 6 could cause undue alarm
about a virus that appears no more dangerous than
seasonal flu strains, has been reluctant to declare this a full - scale pandemic.
When
flu researchers learned
about this new sugar - adorned H3N2 virus in 2014, they made sure to include that strain in the 2016 — 17
seasonal flu vaccine so that immunized individuals would mount an immune response against it.
Most U.S. cases are mild; from reports, it appears that most people get
about as sick as you would when you have the
seasonal flu, and recover from their symptoms readily.
About two - thirds of confirmed
flu cases in the United States have been caused by the H3N2 strain, the most dangerous of the four most common
seasonal flu strains.
I wrote a couple of posts last year
about how the
seasonal flu is really just Vitamin D deficiency disease and why I take a fermented cod liver oil supplement every day even when I get good doses of midday Florida sunshine.
In a 2012 Annals of Family Medicine study of adults aged 50 or older, researchers showed that mindfulness meditation is
about as effective as exercise for reducing the occurrence of acute respiratory infection, which includes colds and
seasonal flu.
In fact, we don't generally worry
about our pets with any of the common
seasonal flu strains.