Antibiotics and supportive care are also important, said Schaffner, who did not treat von Lipinski.
The vaccine generally works better "in young, healthy people than it does in older persons, " Schaffner said.
"It's the best vaccine we have, but there are cases of influenza that occur despite immunization, " Schaffner said.
Every summer in the museum's basement performance space, local amateur actors put on a play from Schaffner's capacious oeuvre.
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Airport screenings are "a control measure, but an imperfect control measure, " says Dr. William Schaffner, an expert on infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University.
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Mike Schaffner directs information technology for the Valve and Measurement Group of oil and gas products and services company Cameron in Houston.
"You need a combination of circumstances that all have to mesh perfectly for this kind of event to take hold, " Schaffner said.
The vaccine usually works best in young, healthy people, according to Dr. Bill Schaffner, chairman of the preventative medicine department at Vanderbilt University.
"It's the best vaccine we have, but there are cases of influenza that occur despite immunization, " Schaffner said on "CNN Newsroom" Thursday morning.
"Once it gets you, it's a very serious infection, " said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.
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"Once it gets you, it's a very serious infection, " said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
"If you wanted to design a system not to use this vaccine, that's the system we have, " says Vanderbilt University infectious disease specialist William Schaffner.
The museum, which celebrates its 40th anniversary next year, was the dream of Neil Schaffner and his wife, Caroline, founders, in 1925, of the Schaffner Players.
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Von Lipinski's story is typical of what Dr. William Schaffner, chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, knows of these sorts of infections.
People who have been thinking about getting a seasonal flu shot ought to act now, said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
But Dr. William Schaffner, chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, estimates there are fewer than 250 cases every year in the United States.
"When you do the back-of-the-envelope calculations (of all the separate groups recommended for vaccination), you are actually already making a recommendation that 75% of the population get it, " Schaffner said.
Simply put, it's a clearer policy, and some protection is better than none at all, according to Dr. William Schaffner, the chair of the department of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University.
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.
Mike Schaffner directs the information technology project management group for the oil and gas products and services company, Cameron, in Houston and aims to infuse a business-based approach to IT management.
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"These are folks who really don't have the best information, but because they are vocal and well organized their message has gotten out, " says William Schaffner, chair of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt School of Medicine.
Almost everyone involved in the film, including director Franklin Schaffner, was opposed to opening the film as Mr. Coppola had written it, with Patton addressing the audience while standing in front of a screen-filling American flag.
"Researchers are trying to make a genuinely better vaccine, including a universal vaccine that could combat all the different strains of flu that we could get every 10 years, as opposed to needing one annually, " Schaffner said.
"It was debated by the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for many years, and the indication for the use of influenza vaccine for an increasing number of groups on a piecemeal basis didn't make sense, " Schaffner said.
"It's not unusual for a surgeon to have to go back a second time and a third time because these infections -- look at that young lady in Georgia -- can spread in a very determined and rapid and persistent fashion, " Schaffner said.
Dr. William Schaffner, chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, estimates that fewer than 250 such cases occur each year in the United States, though estimates are imprecise since doctors do not have to report the cases to health authorities.
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