What's new this year, says Dr. Michael Jhung, medical officer at the CDC, is that many flu shots will immunize against four strains of the flu virus for the first time, an improved protection over years past.
But right now the NIH is developing a universal flu vaccine that would immunize the population against all of the various flu strains -- and save tens of thousands of lives.
Apropos of the recent and groundless panic over immunizing the population against a rumored epidemic of swine flu: "Our government has finally come up with a cure for which there is no known disease".
Unlike an actual case of influenza, this vaccine reaction, though it may be temporarily debilitating, is not dangerous, and infectious disease specialists say it should not deter someone at high risk of flu complications from being immunized.
When to this evidence is added that he has been immunized against flu, that support is undermined.
Get Vaccinated One of the best ways to prevent contracting the flu is to get immunized each year.
Of the 25 people who developed GBS after receiving a vaccine, 18 had just been immunized against flu, two against pneumonia, three against tetanus and another three against hepatitis.
Immunizing a child costs 26 cents.
They're immunizing themselves from judgment.
This isn't the media immunizing itself.
