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Feb 17

This year’s awful flu season may have just hit a plateau

By Helen Branswell, STAT

It’s too soon to say the flu season has peaked, but it’s at least possible it may have plateaued.

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Feb 15

Flu shot only 36 percent effective, making bad year worse

By Mike Stobbe, Associated Press

The flu vaccine is doing a poor job protecting older Americans and others against the bug that's causing most illnesses.

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Feb 09

This flu season is now as bad as the 2009 swine flu

By Mike Stobbe, Associated Press

It's also surpassing every winter flu season since 2003, when the government changed the way it measures flu.

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Jan 27

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PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode January 27, 2018

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On this edition for Saturday, Jan. 27, a deadly bombing in Afghanistan claims nearly 100 lives, and a look at the legal implications of the Larry Nassar case for U.S.A. Gymnastics. Also, asylum-seekers are fleeing the United States for Canada.

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Jan 16

Watch 5:22
What you need to know about this season’s brutal flu

By PBS NewsHour

This year's flu outbreak is the most widespread the Centers for Disease Control has ever seen. Doctor visits are climbing and pediatric deaths from the illness are up as well. What makes it so severe? Dr. Amber Robins of Georgetown…

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Jan 10

Defending against this season’s deadly flu: 5 things to know

By Barbara Feder Ostrov, Kaiser Health News

Flu is widespread in 46 states, and at least 106 people had died from the infectious disease as of mid-December. Here's what you need to know about this year's flu.

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Nov 18

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PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode November 18, 2017

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On this edition for Saturday, Nov. 18, nearly 200 countries, not including the U.S., agree to move forward on climate change. Also, the quest to develop a universal and long-lasting flu vaccine, and a report shows that black residents of…

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Nov 18

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Researchers chase a better fix for the seasonal flu

By Megan Thompson, Mori Rothman

The flu and complications from it can kill as many 56,000 Americans every year while costing $10 billion in doctor visits, hospitalizations and medication. But since the strains change so quickly, its vaccine is only around 20 to 60 percent…

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Oct 01

The flu vaccine is set to get a makeover

By Helen Branswell, STAT

The World Health Organization recommended that flu vaccine manufacturers swap out a component based on one flu virus with an updated version.

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Sep 15

The ads say, ‘Get your flu shot today,’ but it may be wiser to wait

By Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News

The start of flu season is still weeks — if not months — away. Yet marketing of the flu shot has become an almost year-round effort.

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