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Prevention List

Prevention could include:
  • Avoid contact with infected individuals

Prevention Overview Articles

The flu
A yearly vaccine is recommended for children older than 6 months, adolescents, and adults. The vaccine is available as a flu shot or a nasal spray-type flu vaccine.
Source:ADAM
Date:March 6, 2009
Influenza
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that people get an influenza vaccine injection each year before flu season starts. In the United States, flu season typically runs from late December to early March.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Influenza
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that people get an influenza vaccine injection each year before flu season starts. In the United States, flu season typically runs from late December to early March.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Influenza
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that people—particularly the at-risk population such as children, individuals with other diseases or disorders or a compromised immune system, and the elderly—get an influenza va...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Influenza
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that people get an influenza vaccine injection each year before flu season starts. In the United States, flu season typically runs from late December to early March.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine

Specific Prevention Articles

Why We Need to Wash Our Hands
Did you wash your hands this morning? Bravo! Washing your hands helps prevent the spread of potentially dangerous germs.
Source:StayWell
Hand Washing
Detailed information on the importance of hand washing in the prevention of infectious diseases
Source:StayWell
Hand Washing
Detailed information on the importance of hand washing in the prevention of infectious diseases
Source:StayWell
Influenza vaccine
This vaccine protects people against  the flu.Vaccine- influenza; Immunization- influenza; Flu shot; Flu vaccine.The flu is a contagious respiratory disease caused by an influenza virus. In the U.S., flu outbreaks typically occur in winter mo...
Source:ADAM
Date:August 5, 2008
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