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"Over the last two and a half years, there has been very little circulating influenza ... Further, the uptake for influenza vaccine in Australia over this period has been lower than usual." "This means that the Australian population has had comparatively little exposure to influenza... (and)...
adults plan to get a flu shot this year and just a third feel safe getting a flu shot and COVID-19 vaccine at the same time, according to a National Foundation for Infectious Diseases survey. Stuart opted for both a flu shot and the bivalent COVID booster, which the CDC says can ...
As I told my husband, why would I get a vaccine for the flu? That just seems silly. It’s the flu. You get it and get over it. No big deal, right? Anyone who has taken care of four sick little boys while being sick yourself will tell you that it’s certainly not fun. Yes,...
the flue vaccine may not achieve desired effectD. Australia tends to be a good mirror for America+67. What does the underined sentence in Paragraph 3 mean?A. Experts can sometimes define the virus precisely.+B. Experts can sometimes getrid of the virus completely.+C. Experts can sometimes...
For the first time, a pandemic vaccine was developed, produced, and deployed in multiple countries during the first year of the pandemic. While most cases of pandemic H1N1 were mild, globally it is estimated that this 2009 pandemic caused between 100,000 and 400,000 deaths in the first year...
“The flu vaccine has been around for many decades and it’s safety profile is very well known,” he says. The effectiveness of a vaccine dwindles over the course of a year, Belongia says. But this year, vaccination is especially important to protect against several new flu strains. ...
Most of the people who are hospitalized for the flu are over the age of 65. The predominant flu strain this year is H3N2, a form of influenza A. This strain is included in this year’s flu vaccine, but information on how effective the vaccine has been is typically not available until ...
Some have proposed that exposure to past disease strains that were similar to the 2009 strain may have had a preventative effect, whereby past exposure almost acted like a vaccine to the new disease. Most experts agree that quality of care was not a sufficient explanation for differences in ...
The best protection against the flu is the flu vaccine. Whilereports earlier this seasoncautioned that the vaccine may only be 10 percent effective – as happened in Australia – Jernigan said the estimates for this year are likely in the 30 percent range. ...