Influenza, Ebola and COVID-19 are all viruses. Find out what a virus does to your body and how to decrease your chance of exposure.
Influenza, Ebola and COVID-19 are all viruses. Find out what a virus does to your body and how to decrease your chance of exposure.
Results from the 2023-2024 U.S. flu season show that in adults vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization ranged from 41% to 44%. Specifically for children and teens less than 18 years, the flu vaccine was 71% effective for preventing symptomatic influenza A illness. All vaccines in the 202...
The common cold and Influenza are two good examples. These diseases either mutate so quickly or have so many different strains in the wild that it is impossible to inject all of them into your body. Each time you get the flu, for example, you are getting a different strain of the same...
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Symmetrel and Flumadine also lessen the severity and shorten the duration of the flu, but they only work against influenza A. Both are antiviral medications that work by stopping the virus from replicating. All four drugs are by prescription only and do have potential side effects, so they...
(SARS-CoV-2) is probably like other coronaviruses and influenza in that it will mutate over time. When it mutates, any antibodies from a prior infection will provide little, if any protection. So, people who come down with COVID-19 in 2020 might be protected for a few months to a ...
The common cold and Influenza are two good examples. These diseases either mutate so quickly or have so many different strains in the wild that it is impossible to inject all of them into your body. Each time you get the flu, for example, you are getting a different strain of the same...