Avian Flu Diary

Covering Pandemic and Seasonal Flu, Emerging Infectious Diseases, public health, community & Individual preparedness. NOTE: All AFD blogs are written by a human - any mistakes are solely mine.

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Saturday, May 10, 2014

CDC: Flu Shots Reduce Hospitalizations In The Elderly

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Photo Credit - CDC PHIL # 8596 Although the elderly (> 65) are considered to be the most endangered by influenza infect...

Thursday, October 17, 2013

PLoS One: Limited Effectiveness Of Flu Vaccines In The Elderly

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# 7869 A topic we’ve covered often in the past has been the limited effectiveness of influenza vaccines among the elderly...

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

BMC Infectious Diseases: Waning Flu Vaccine Protection In the Elderly

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# 7807 The standard advice for getting the seasonal flu vaccine is to get it as soon as it becomes available in the fall...

Friday, July 01, 2011

NFID: The Challenges Of Influenza In Older Adults

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# 5665 NFID is the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases -- a non-profit organization founded in 1973 – that descr...

Friday, April 30, 2010

MMWR On High Dose Flu Vaccine For Seniors

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# 4535 Proving that timing is everything , several hours before the CDC released their weekly MMWR which contained info...

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Flu Shots And The Elderly

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# 4532 Seasonal influenza ( as opposed to pandemic flu) traditionally takes its biggest toll among the oldest and frailest...

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