Influenza

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Influenza

Each year, 5-20% of the worldwide population will become ill with influenza. In the United States, influenza and its complications cause an average of 36,000 deaths and 226,000 hospitalizations, as well as countless hours of missed work and missed school days. Influenza often leads to secondary infections such as pneumococcal pneumonia, ear infections, and sinus infections. Children, newborn through 5 years, are at an especially high risk of complications, as are person over 65 years and those with reduced immune systems.

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 News and updates

• DHS Encourages Flu Vaccination (Press release 10/11/08)
  
• Mother's Flu Shot Protects Newborns (9/19/08, Science Daily News)
  
• Vaccines and Anti-virals: Flogging the Flu (CD Summary, 9/2/08)
  
• Oregon's low vaccination rate causes health concerns (The Oregonian, 8/27/08)
  
• FDA Approves 2008-2009 Flu Vaccine Press Release (8/5/08, FDA site)
  
• National Influenza Vaccine Week December 8-14, 2008 (cdc.gov)
  
• Why Flu Vaccination Matters Video
  This powerful six and half-minute video, created by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in collaboration with Families Fighting Flu (FFF), features the personal stories of parents who have tragically lost or nearly lost a child to the flu. "Why Flu Vaccination Matters: Personal Stories from Families Affected by Flu" intertwines the stories of these parents with the facts about influenza as explained by Dr. Jeanne Santoli, Deputy Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC.

  Useful Flu links

• Oregon Influenza and Pneumococcal Vaccination Rates for Adults ≥ 65 Years
  Oregon collects statistics on influenza vaccination rates through the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). This data collection program is used in all states and is administered and supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Data about personal health behaviors, such as vaccinations, are collected by a standardized method, usually by telephone interview.
  
• Flu Summit Presentation - Influenza in Oregon (Oregon Public Health Division)
  
• Good health habits (CDC)

• CDC flu page
  
• Immunization Action Coalition
  
• American Lung Association Faces of Influenza
  
• National Influenza Summit
  
• National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease (NCIRD) (cdc.gov)
  
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID)
  
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Influenza Information

• World Health Organization
  • Influenza home page
  • Influenza fact sheet
  • Influenza travel information
  
  
• Public Health Agency of Canada flu page 

• Stanford University: The Flu Epidemic: United States, 1918
  
• The American Experience (PBS): Influenza 1918
  
• Secrets of the Dead (PBS): Killer Flu
  
• A Historical Assessment of Nonpharmaceutical Disease Containment Strategies Employed by Selected U.S. Communities During the Second Wave of the 1918-1920 Influenza Pandemic
  
• Influenza of 1918 (Spanish Flu) and the US Navy