influenza

With enough changing of the influenza RNA over time, the vaccine no longer provokes the “right” immune response.

Though this too is debatable given that 25,000 to 40,000 people a year die of influenza—the vast majority of them unvaccinated.

And right now in the US, there is an FDA-approved inhaled vaccine to prevent influenza called FluMist.

Unlike influenza, it is incapable of traveling through tiny microscopic particles.

These new cases, both real and merely suspected, are coming right as we approach the cusp of influenza season.

The next day, as it happened, I had to go to bed with influenza, and wrote him that I might not get out for a week.

For example, a dreadful influenza epidemic occurred followed by a severe fuel shortage due to a railroad strike.

I am still alive, and in spite of the influenza perfectly well.

After the other seven were almost wholly recovered Henry lay down to influenza on his own account.

Influenza, called popularly the grippe, is caused by the bacillus influenzae, which was isolated by Pfeiffer in 1891.