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MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 11:10 AM Oct 2016

First Flu Cases Beginning to Show Up. Get Your Shot!

Early cases are also being reported in Kentucky and Colorado, too. It's important to get vaccinated before it becomes widespread in your own area, and well before holiday travel begins, which always spreads the flu nationwide.

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2016/10/07/maryland-confirms-1st-case-of-flu-this-season/

Maryland Confirms 1st Case Of Flu This Season

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — It’s only October, and Marylanders are fighting the flu. The State Department of Health is dealing with its first case of the season.

A single flu shot could save you weeks of misery, or even a trip to the hospital.

“High fever, body aches, chills,” said Peter Andrews, Sinai Hospital.

That’s the message that Maryland health officials are sending, after Maryland’s first confirmed case of the flu this season.
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