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Flu
Facts
During the
Influenza Pandemic of 1918 over 20 million people died,
including 500,000 in the United States alone. On average
as many as 36,000 Americans die each year from influenza more
commonly known as the flu. In 2003 the number rose to
over 67,000. Each year another 150,000 are
hospitalized. Unfortunately many of them are our
children. Many people who get influenza can develop pneumonia.
The combination of influenza and pneumonia is in fact the
seventh leading cause of death among Americans and the sixth
leading cause of death in our children under the
age of 13.
So
remember it may not be JUST the flu!
Follow
your instincts about your children. No one knows your
children better than you do.
Statistical
information provided by the United States Center of Disease
Control
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