Steps For Flu Prevention

Steps For Flu Prevention.
With flu now widespread across the United States, experts stand up for you demand several steps to reduce your risk. Getting a flu vaccination is crucial, said Dr Saul Hymes, assistant professor of clinical pediatrics and a professional in pediatric infectious diseases at Stony Brook Children's Hospital in Stony Brook, NY "It's still not too late," he said in a asylum news release. "Even though one of the predominant strains this year, H3N2, has drifted a little and is less well covered by the vaccine, there are still three other flu strains out there covered by the vaccine, and the vaccine will tenable still offer some protection against H3N2 as well". Dr Susan Donelan, medical captain of health care epidemiology at Stony Brook, said that a variety of flu strains promulgate during most flu seasons.

And "A mismatch of the current strain does not predict a mismatch of circulating strains later in the season. That is what happened in the 2013-2014 ripen - two divergent influenza A viruses and one influenza B 'took turns' being the predominant strain". Flu all things considered peaks between December and February in the United States, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So far this season, 26 children have died from flu, and flu vim was reported widespread in 46 states, the CDC said Friday.