You need not go traveling to catch the flu – but it does help. Weekends visiting out-of-town relatives, skiing holidays, cruises, and air travel, for example, place your kids in close contact with people from different localities near and far. In flu season (December through March), there is a fair chance that someone in the […]
Special Report No. 2: Swine flu influenza/Infants and children/Prevention
May 3, 2009 by
This is our second report on the current swine flu outbreak. Here are the latest recommendations for protecting your children from becoming ill. · Keep events in perspective. In the U.S., in “mild” flu seasons, about 20,000 children under the age of five years are hospitalized with proven flu. Most of these children are under […]
Children/travel/influenza/prevention
December 4, 2008 by
If you took our email quiz, all of the answers are TRUE. You need not go traveling to catch the flu – but it does help. Weekends visiting out-of-town relatives, skiing holidays, cruises, and air travel, for example, place your kids in close contact with people from different localities near and far. In flu season […]
