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Originally Posted by wondergirl9847
I'm sick of hearing about the flu too. I mean, it's not like it's friggin' leprosy or something. It's the flu, people. You get fever, you have a headache, you throw up, you get better.
Geez.
ETA: I didn't mean that rant against people who really NEED the shot, I mean, the paranoid people who are healthy.
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over 30,000 people in the US die of influenza each year. In the last true worldwide epidemic in 1918, close to 1 million people died in the US, 20 million worldwide...
being healthy and young can help you recover and avoid death but a particularly strong strain can kill anyone...
everyone is more vulnerable this year because of the lack of vaccine...less people vaccinated means more people exposed to and/or spreading the influenza virus. so if you're young and healthy, this year may be the first time you actually get influenza not just a bad cold...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/influenza/
http://history1900s.about.com/gi/dyn...virus%2Fuda%2F