Flu Spreading Throughout Hackett

There has been a recent outbreak of the Flu that is affecting a significant amount of the students attending Hackett. Some class rooms are empty simply because people are catching and spreading the flu to their friends. As any outbreak situation requires, basic disease prevention is needed. Simply using Germ-X on your hands will most likely help prevent your contraction of the disease.

Some of the students that have received the Flu Vaccine are saying that it doesn't work or it is wrong. The CDC found that the vaccine that was chosen to be distributed this year might not be as effective as the strain has mutated..

Much of the influenza virus circulating in the United States has mutated and this year’s vaccine doesn’t provide good protection against it, federal health officials are warning. Flu season’s barely starting, but most cases are being caused by a strain called H3N2 this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a health warning issued to doctors Wednesday night. The flu vaccine protects against three or four strains of flu — there’s always a mix of flu viruses going around — and H3N2 is one of them. But the strain of H3N2 infecting most people has mutated and only about half of cases match the vaccine, CDC said. -NBC News

The vaccine does work it just so happens that this year we are not fully protected against it due to evolution wanting to pull a fast one.

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