The number of kids with CF who got flu shots, a basic step toward preventing related respiratory problems, jumped from 36% to 86%.
In addition, less than half of school-age children -- the population mainly responsible for spreading the flu virus -- got the flu shot, experts said.
How many people who received the vaccine and got the flu had a milder case?
"The only differences in symptoms was increased soreness in the arm and redness at the injection site among people who got the flu shot, " the CDC found.
Shaman converted the guinea pig data from relative humidity to absolute humidity and found the link between air moisture and flu spread got much stronger.
"I've actually got a touch of the flu and so my aim has been to preserve my energy out there by swinging nice and easy, " the 32-year-old explained.
Then a fourth roommate got sick, illustrative of a spreading flu pattern the girls said is obvious from the empty seats in classes.
The Bulls stood their ground even though Hinrich missed his second straight game with a bruised left calf, and Deng got sent home from the arena with flu-like symptoms, forcing coach Tom Thibodeau to shuffle the lineup.
The actors on any number of indistinguishable cop shows are entertaining, affable, gruff or quirky, but I'd turn to "The Good Wife's" long-term development any day ... and the only reason I got hooked on it is because I spent a flu-ridden week catching up on the first two seasons.
An annual flu shot is a must, and she got one for whooping cough too when an epidemic of pertussis erupted a few years ago.
The flu never spread, but some 40 million Americans got the vaccine, which was blamed for hundreds of cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome, an autoimmune disorder that causes severe muscle weakness.
No wonder a lot of people complain that they got the shot and got sick anyway, or even that they suspect the shot gave them the flu.
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According to one study, if people got just five types of preventive services when they needed to -- colorectal and breast cancer screening, flu vaccines, counseling to help them quit smoking, and regular aspirin use to prevent strokes -- we could avert 100, 000 deaths each year.
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