Flu Shots: Not Just For You
Friday, February 1, 2013 - 09:00
in Health & Medicine
The influenza virus, ever-wiley, has decided to hit America early and hard this year. The flu season is always full of uncertainty. How bad will it be? How well will the annual vaccine work? What folk remedy will the internets come up with this time? For many people, all this uncertainty can make a flu shot not seem worth the effort. That wouldn't be so bad if flu shots were just about our own personal cost-benefit analysis. But the truth, which gets far too little attention outside virologist circles, is that getting your flu shot is about more than just you. read more