The video should inform and motivate people to take steps to prevent the flu.
Consumers should beware, however, of products sold over the Internet claiming to cure or prevent the flu, the FDA said last week.
It can prevent the flu, and it can be beneficial even if you do get sick, said Dr. Bill Schaffner, chairman of the preventive medicine department at Vanderbilt University's School of Medicine.
Even though the regular seasonal flu vaccine contains a strain of the A-flu virus group, it will not prevent you from getting sick if you come in contact with the new flu strain.
Liberal Democrat AM William Powell urged the Welsh Government to put measures in place to increase the take-up of the seasonal flu vaccine to prevent one of the main causes of excess winter deaths.
India banned shipments of US farm products, including poultry meat and chicken eggs, in 2007 to prevent the spread of avian flu.
I'm glad you are thinking about ways to protect yourself from the flu (influenza) since the flu season can continue as late as May of each year, and immunization can prevent or lessen the severity of a case of the flu.
Right now, only Sanofi-Aventis (a French company) makes its vaccine in the U.S. In the meantime, those who can't get vaccines turn to Roche's Tamiflu, an antiviral pill that can prevent infection if taken after exposure to the flu.
Trulli recovered from a midweek bout of flu to prevent Ferrari from locking out the front row, claiming a surprise second to hand Toyota their best qualifying result for three years.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- British airlines have put into effect measures to stop people with swine flu boarding flights in a bid to prevent the virus from spreading further.
"We'd need to treat 13 children with the preventive course of one of these drugs to prevent one of them from getting flu, " Thompson said.
Many times, seasonal flu itself is tough to prevent because it has mutated to a form different than it was when the vaccine was made.
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