Pharmacy sales were lower because of fewer flu outbreaks than a year earlier, the company said.
It was already known that blacks receive fewer flu shots than whites.
Yet even without a vaccine, these countries are reporting fewer flu deaths than normal.
One potential reason for why we obtained fewer Flu-specific reads than norovirus reads in this study might have been the large number (90.0 94.6% of all reads) of host-derived sequences (Figure 2 and Table 5).
There have been a few documented flu outbreaks in seals, the most recent having hit in 1992.
The vaccine is reformulated each season for a few specific flu strains but does not include all the strains active in the world during that season.
Women with more common HLA alleles reported fewer cold and flu bouts per year, fewer illnesses in the previous year and rated themselves healthier than women with rare alleles.
Relatively few Britons got flu shots this year, officials said, ascribing that to skepticism after the swine flu pandemic proved less lethal than feared.
A few months before flu season, they have to guess which strains will be dominant.
The 10-year-old program singles out areas where relatively few people get flu shots.
ASKED which country has the worst case of Asian flu, few economists would hesitate before naming Indonesia.
