Flu Vaccines

Last week was a busy one with Damien's two brothers visiting. It became a full house on Friday when Ryan's wife, Samantha arrived. Then Dani, their little sister, joined us on Saturday for a great beach day -- and their timing was perfect since a bit of a cold snap came through last night and we were in the low 70s today. For us Floridians, that's cold!

It was a reminder that flu season will soon be in full force and, of course, the crazy H1N1 flu is all over the news. Since people seem to be talking so much about it -- in fact, I just watched a good segment on 60 Minutes -- I have gathered a bunch of articles I've read about it. Most of the links below are from the New York Times, a source that I wholeheartedly trust. Hopefully this will help inform and also ease some of the anxiety people have about the flus and vaccines. And please remember that pregnant women and children are particularly vulnerable. Take care of yourselves.

I found this Q&A to be particularly useful.

This one is one of the more recent articles that talks a bit about anti-vaccinators.

The New Yorker had this Michael Specter "The Talk of the Town" piece in their Oct. 12th, 2009 issue.

And if you want to dig even more into vaccinations and immunizations, one place to start is the New York Times Topics Page on the subject -- their H1N1 page is pretty good too -- that has a good list of links, including the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia that I found particularly informative.