Flu Vaccines: What’s the Fuss?

Flu Vaccines: What’s the Fuss?
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This time of year you can’t walk into a drug store or a supermarket in America without seeing government-sponsored messaging urging you to get a flu vaccine.

That’s because the CDC blanketly recommends vaccination against influenza for everyone six months of age and older every year.
Jennifer Margulis, Ph.D., is an award-winning journalist and author of “Your Baby, Your Way: Taking Charge of Your Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Parenting Decisions for a Happier, Healthier Family.” A Fulbright awardee and mother of four, she has worked on a child survival campaign in West Africa, advocated for an end to child slavery in Pakistan on prime-time TV in France, and taught post-colonial literature to nontraditional students in inner-city Atlanta. Learn more about her at JenniferMargulis.net
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