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SOMETHING FAR DEADLIER THAN THE WUHAN VIRUS LURKS NEAR YOU"There's a deadly virus spreading from state to state. It preys on the most vulnerable, striking the sick and the old without mercy. In just the past few months, it has claimed the lives of at least 39 children. The virus is influenza, and it poses a far greater threat to Americans than the "When we think about the relative danger of this new " Influenza rarely gets this sort of attention, even though it kills more Americans each year than any other virus, said Dr. Peter Hotez, a professor of pediatrics, molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Influenza has already sickened at least 13 million Americans this winter, hospitalizing 120,000 and killing 6,600, according to the CDC. And Worldwide, the flu causes up to 5 million cases of severe illness worldwide and kills up to 650,000 people every year, according to the World Health Organization. And yet, Americans aren't particularly concerned. Fewer than half of If Americans aren't afraid of the flu, perhaps that's because they are inured to yearly warnings. For them, the flu is old news. Yet viruses named after foreign places — such as Ebola, Zika and Wuhan — inspire terror. "Familiarity breeds indifference," Schaffner said. "Because it's new, it's mysterious and comes from an exotic place, the Some "We should rename influenza; call it XZ-47 virus, or something scarier," said Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Measles in the: |
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246890 | Re: SOMETHING FAR DEADLIER THAN THE WUHAN VIRUS LURKS NEAR YOU | slim2483 | 0 | 1/27/2020 11:05:13 AM |