It is still flu season. Normally, the major flu season runs from October to March, but this year has been pretty nasty. There is still a significant amount of influenza being reported in all age groups and the rate of disease, hospitalization, and deaths due to flu has been higher this year than any since […]
Category: vaccination
Article #32: Vaccination. Perhaps mankind’s greatest achievement
It’s flu season. I’m going to do the whole column on the flu next week, but to set it up, this week we’ll talk about pathogenic (that means “disease causing”) microorganisms a bit and how the human immune system and vaccination works to protect us from them. First off, it’s important to understand that this […]