Dominant flu strain shows resistance to drug glaxosmithkline
infectious disease specialist on cdc interim guidance and other flu treatment options
march 2009 - according to the centers for disease control and prevention (cdc), flu activity is widespread in more than half of all the states within the with the current condition of the economy, a lot of people cannot afford to be sick and out of work for days at a it's important to take extra precautions to protect your average, flu causes 36,000 deaths and over 200,000 hospitalizations each year from flu in a
normal flu season, several strains of influenza this flu season, reports show that the common flu treatment
is not working percent of the time against the dominant flu strain, influenza a it's important to ask your doctor for more schaffner, md, professor and chairman of the department of preventive medicine and professor of medicine
in the division of infectious diseases at vanderbilt university school of medicine, talks about the recommendations by health officials and also shares tips on what to do if you think you have the if influenza a (h1n1) viruses are circulating in your area, the cdc is recommending health care providers use alternative and remember, it's still not too late to get a flu william schaffner, md
william schaffner, md, is a professor and chairman of the department of preventive medicine and professor of
medicine in the division of infectious diseases at vanderbilt university school of medicine in nashville, schaffner serves as president-elect of the national foundation for infectious in addition, he is a
member of 20 professional societies, including the infectious diseases society of america, society of healthcare epidemiology of america, and the american public health schaffner is active in the field of infectious disease research and has authored or co-authored more than 230 published studies, reviews and book
chapters on infectious he currently serves on the editorial board of a number of scientific journals,
including journal of infectious diseases, european journal of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases and schaffner received his medical degree from cornell university medical college in new he also
was a fulbright scholar (albert ludwigs university, freiburg, germany) and received his undergraduate degree from yale university in new haven,
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