Cough, Cough, Hack, Hack, It’s Flu Season Again

While reading one of my favorite magazines yesterday, NATURAL HEALTH, I ran across a small list of facts about the flu compiled by a fellow writer, Kate Wertheimer. Depending on your propensity for yukiness, you may want to read this list with caution however, we’re all out there together getting exposed to all those live viruses who often are being carried by folks with little if any sense about how contagious they are. We’ll get to her list later, which was compiled in New Zealand. Apparently they do a great deal of research in most countries about the strains of viruses they can and will choose for their flu inoculations. In this country, the good old USA, this research is coordinated by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia. Since the giving and receiving of the flu jab is an annual event, the CDC begins to look at the possibilities they questimate may be in our future for the coming year. Their appraisal and judgment is based on the previous year but must be done months in advance in order for the injections to be manufactured in time for the coming flu season. Since strains of influenza are fluid, no, perhaps I should not put it quite that way since the results can be fluid indeed; rather let me say since the strains can be ever evolving and changing from month to month, the scientists and physicians at the CDC do the best they can. To quote from the official site of the CDC, “The seasonal flu vaccine protects against three influenza viruses that r...
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