PUBH 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Pertussis, Influenza Vaccine, Flu Season
15 Feb 2017
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During the 2013-2014 flu season, only 46% of americans got a flu shot. Flu kills about 3,000 people in a good year, up to 50,000 in a bad one. We fixate on remote threats that we feel we can"t control, meanwhile there"s immediate threats that we simply don"t bother to control half of them weren"t wearing seat belts. Out of the tens of thousands of americans that died in car crashed in 2012, over: we have clear answers how to minimize risk, yet we choose not to heed them. More than 3. 5 million cases of skin cancer are diagnosed annually, yet people still flaunt tans all year round. Instead of being worried about/ taking control of risks we have answers and. We have a lot of vaccine-preventable diseases, but more and more parents are refusing to let their children get the vaccines.
