The Center for Disease Prevention and Control (KEELPNO) urged the public to get inoculated and seek treatment as soon as the first symptoms appear. Those most venerable include high-risk groups such as the elderly, the obese, the chronically ill etc.
KEELPNO officials claim that the prevention against this deadly flu virus will help the government economize in the long term by saving valuable man-hours, medication and hospital beds; about 10% of hospital beds in ICUs are presently occupied by flu patients.
From Wikipedia:
Influenza, commonly known as "the flu", is an infectious disease of birds and mammals caused by RNA viruses of the family Orthomyxoviridae, the influenza viruses. The most common symptoms are chills, fever, runny nose, sore throat, muscle pains, headache (often severe), coughing, weakness/fatigue and general discomfort. Although it is often confused with other influenza-like illnesses, especially the common cold, influenza is a more severe disease caused by a different type of virus. Influenza may produce nausea and vomiting, particularly in children, but these symptoms are more common in the unrelated gastroenteritis, which is sometimes inaccurately referred to as "stomach flu" or "24-hour flu".
Influenza spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics, resulting in about three to five million yearly cases of severe illness and about 250,000 to 500,000 yearly deaths, rising to millions in some pandemic years. In the 20th century three influenza pandemics occurred, each caused by the appearance of a new strain of the virus in humans, and killed tens of millions of people.
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