. It's based on a Rand survey of 4,000 U.S. adults that shows the following:
Fifty-three percent of all adults surveyed have no intention of getting the flu vaccine this year, while 17 percent say they haven't yet but will at some point.
Seventy percent of healthy adults under age 50 have no intention of being vaccinated, while 16 percent say they will at some point but haven't yet.
Public-health experts are up in arms, saying that it's a
on our nation's health report card. Yet, I'm not quite sure what the brouhaha is about. After all, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Posted on November 18th, 2008 in News
How many times have you dismissed sniffles as "just a cold," and carried on with a stuffed nose and sinuses assuming that the symptoms would eventually run their course, perhaps a bit more quickly with a few doses of Mom's homemade chicken soup?
Influenza is another story. The common cold eventually fizzles, but the flu may be deadly. Some
that claimed between 20 and 100 million lives. The best defense against it: a
. Yet barely 30 percent of 4,000 U.S. adults surveyed said they'd been inoculated this season, despite a
, according to a new
. (GlaxoSmithKline, which makes flu vaccine, Continue reading