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There are currently two options for at-home flu testing. Here's what you need to know. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Getty Images)
Tamiflu and Paxlovid Credit - Matthew Baker—PA Images/Getty Images; Fabian Sommer—dpa/AP. A s we head into winter, health experts expect that cases of flu and COVID-19 will start to creep up ...
Getting a flu shot will not only help you, it will also help keep your loved ones safe. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), almost one-third of all flu shots in the ...
During the worldwide Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, "Pharmacists tried everything they knew, everything they had ever heard of, from the ancient art of bleeding patients, to administering oxygen, to developing new vaccines and serums (chiefly against what we call Hemophilus influenzae – a name derived from the fact that it was originally considered the etiological agent – and several types ...
A rapid influenza diagnostic test (RIDT) tells whether a person has a current influenza infection by detecting the influenza viral nucleoprotein antigen. Commercially available RIDTs can provide results within 30 minutes. These results can be observed by a color change or other visual signals.
A Walgreens spokesperson said such mistakes are "extremely rare" and that the company's top priority is patient safety. [90] A few weeks later, a Walgreens pharmacist in Evansville, Indiana, accidentally gave a 4-year-old boy, a 5-year-old girl, and their parents a full adult dosage each of the Pfizer vaccine instead of intended flu vaccine.
Oct. 3—Hocus, poke-us! As store aisles fill with Halloween goodies, uninsured New Mexicans can get their first treat of the trick-or-treat season: free flu shots available every Friday at ...
Despite the high morbidity and mortality rates that resulted from the epidemic, the Spanish flu began to fade from public awareness over the decades until the arrival of news about bird flu and other pandemics in the 1990s and 2000s. [320] [321] This has led some historians to label the Spanish flu a "forgotten pandemic". [177]