Tag: influenza

Health

What You Need to Know about Flu Shots

Post author By [E] Hillary
Post date Friday, October 9th, 2015
2 Comments on What You Need to Know about Flu Shots

It’s flu shot season, but even people who support childhood vaccines are sometimes a bit iffy about the flu shot. Is it really necessary, or just a scam? Can you get sick from it? Do you really have to get it every year? Let’s try to put your mind at ease.

Tags affordable care act, CDC, egg allergy, egg intolerance, flu, flu shot, flu vaccine, influenza, mercury in vaccines, thimerosal, vaccination

Life

How to Survive a Pandemic

Post author By Olivia Marudan
Post date Thursday, May 19th, 2011
3 Comments on How to Survive a Pandemic

In the world of phobias and disaster preparedness, perhaps no tragedy is as terrifying as a plague. It does make a certain amount of sense. We can spot sharks, blast zombies and reinforce our subduction zone skyscrapers. But microscopic bacteria? An undetectable parasite?

Tags Ebola, influenza, Pandemics, Survive, travel