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Number of Flu Deaths in U.S. this Season Highly Unusual
Flu vaccine (Credit: CNN) This year’s flu season is off to an early and aggressive start with more than two dozen deaths reported statewide so far, including nine in the Bay Area, most of them due to a...
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CDC Says U. S. Flu Season Is Ramping Up
Flu season is ramping up, with illness widespread in at least 35 states. That’s up from 25 in the previous week. A flu expert with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the agency’s...
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Flu Is Hitting Young and Middle Age Adults Unusually Hard This Year
Flu season seems to be winding down, and it’s been an odd one. It hasn’t been as bad as last year and the vaccine worked a little better. And it has been a fairly mild one for the elderly —...
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CDC Urges Everyone Get Vaccinated for Coming Flu Season
(iStockphoto) Less than half of all Americans got a flu shot last year, so U.S. health officials on Thursday urged that everyone 6 months and older get vaccinated for the coming flu season. “It’s...
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U.S. Hospitals Ready for Panic Amid Ebola Outbreak, Flu Season
(Photo: USA TODAY) A young woman complaining of abdominal pain and nausea who had traveled to Africa arrived at a Long Island hospital fearful that she had contracted Ebola. She did not have the virus,...
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26 Ways to Stay-Well This Winter
Mario Tama / Getty ImagesSee #5 for the reason green tea can help what ails you. We’re going to go out on a limb here and predict that the zombie apocalypse will not happen in 2014. This doesn’t mean,...
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CDC says flu activity in U.S. has reached epidemic levels
This year’s flu season has officially crossed the epidemic threshold, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Fifteen children have died across the country from influenza, as the...
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Tips on How You Can Try to Keep the Flu Out of Your Home
This year the flu season hit early and it will likely last until April. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the best prevention is a flu shot and it’s still not too late to...
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CDC says Flu is Widespread in 43 States; Could Reach Peak This Month
The flu is now widespread in all but seven states, and hospitalization rates match the dismal season two years ago. While health officials fear this will be an unusually bad year, it’s too soon to...
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Flu Still Widespread In Majority of U. S. States
The flu is still widespread in a majority of states, and flu-related hospitalizations and deaths are on the rise, the CDC says. The worst might not be over: It’s too soon to tell whether this flu...
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The Winter Season Will Soon Be Here: How to Prevent and Treat Colds and Flu
Now that the colder weather is upon us, so is the cold and flu season. As it turns out, the cold weather isn’t what causes us to become ill, it is instead the lowered immune response that comes with...
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Tia Mowry On How Staying True to Herself Has Brought the Ultimate Success
We’ve watched Tia Mowry evolve from child star to a media mogul and married mom. This year she’s starred in a new season of Instant Mom, launched a new show on the Cooking Channel and joined the cast...
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CDC: Flu Season Continues to Be Mild
In more good news, health officials report flu vaccine is 59 percent effective so far This flu season continues to be mild, and the flu vaccine is working better than the one used last season, U.S....
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Many Parents Think a Flu Shot Is Unnecessary
Study reveals other reasons for not getting kids vaccinated Many American parents who don’t get their children flu shots say they don’t see the need, according to a new study. “The first and most...
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U.S. Life Expectancy Falls
A decades-long trend of rising life expectancy in the U.S. could be ending: It declined last year and it is no better than it was four years ago. In most of the years since World War II, life...
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U.S. Flu Season Starting to Peak, May Be a Severe One
More severe strain of virus circulating, but it’s not too late to get vaccinated, health officials say Flu season is in full swing and it’s starting to look like a severe one, U.S. health officials...
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CDC: More Flu Hospitalizations Reported, Deaths Increasing
Although this year’s flu season appears to be an average one so far, more hospitalizations are being reported and deaths are increasing, federal health officials reported Friday. And it will be...
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4 Children Reported Dead From Flu Outbreak in New York City
The flu season has been particularly rough in New York City this year with four pediatric deaths from the virus reported in the city, all in January, according to New York State Health Department. The...
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Flu Season Reaching Its Peak in 43 States
Flu season is reaching its peak — with the virus “widespread” in 43 states — and 14,000 new infections a week. With a quarter of the student body in Clarkton, Missouri home sick with the flu, school...
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