Flu Season Turns Up the Misery in Region, Doctors Say
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A mild influenza season has turned miserable for many in the region, with doctors' offices and hospitals reporting a sharp increase in achy, nauseated and feverish patients.
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The flu vaccine shortage has prompted anxiety bordering on panic. Here&#39;s a look at some advice from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and comments from doctors and other health authorities.
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Diarrhea, malaria, dengue fever, and  even meningitis and flu may be waiting to cause a second wave  of misery across Indian Ocean coastal areas devastated by  Sunday's tsunami, experts said on Thursday.
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The demand for flu vaccine was so great last year that the Carter County Health Department and most area doctors had their supplies depleted by the middle of December.
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High-risk patients in the region could have trouble tracking down flu shots as supplies of the vaccine dwindle and clinics are canceled.
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The avian influenza virus that swept across East Asia early this year has reemerged in at least four countries in the region despite optimism among health and agriculture officials that the disease had been eradicated through the mass slaughter of chickens.
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ATLANTA The flu season is off to a slow start, to the relief of government health authorities dealing with a vaccine shortage. Only Delaware and New York are reporting significant flu activity.
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The H5N1 strain of bird flu swept through 10 Asian countries early this year, resulting in the death or slaughter of over 100 million chickens and the deaths of more than 20 people.
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As the flu crisis stretched into its third week, complaints are building across the country that health officials are failing to distribute the remaining vaccine supply quickly or equitably.
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Dr. Guadalupe Zamora has been a family doctor for 16 years. This is the first time he won&#39;t be able to offer his patients a flu shot.
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PITTSBURGH -- Flu season typically peaks between December and March, and so now is the time that those most at risk need to get the shot.
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LONG lines of anxious people have begun showing up at clinics across the United States as people scramble for flu vaccines. Hopes of averting a flu inoculation crisis as winter approaches have been dashed
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With the weather getting colder and more students staying inside in close quarters, the increase of sickness is becoming a more serious threat.
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Prioritizing flu shots for those most in need is proving difficult as inventories of hospitals, nursing homes and individual physicians are surveyed in the Washington region.
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Nine children have died of flu this season in Alabama, an unusually high number that has some experts worried, a pediatrician said on Thursday.
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Health officials say there is not enough flu vaccine for the area&#39;s high-risk population because of a nationwide shortage of vaccine.
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Two more children have come down with fever and symptoms of respiratory infections in a hospital where an outbreak of flu has claimed one life and stricken another 33.