Update on Flu Season and Flu Vaccine Effectiveness

Each year, after getting our flu shot, we wait and hope that it is a good match for the flu virus strains that are going around. Will our flu vaccine work? In a new report, "Interim Estimates of 2013-14 Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness -- United States, February 2014," the CDC has estimated the effectiveness of this year's seasonal flu vaccine to prevent "influenza-associated, medically attended acute respiratory illness" at about 67% in children between the ages of 6 months and 17 years....Read Full Post
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