In light of the
upcoming flu season and the advent of flu vaccines via flu crew over the next
few weeks, I’ve decided to focus this week’s post on this year’s projected flu outbreak.
If the past is
any indication, between 3,000 and 49,000 Americans will die this year from
flu-related causes. Yet, only 45% of
Americans got vaccinated during the 2013-2014 flu season, leaving the majority
of individuals vulnerable to infection. Influenza thus presents a great public
health challenge to the United States. To
give some perspective, less than a handful of people have died in the United States
from the Ebola outbreak so far.
88 million doses
of influenza vaccine have been distributed around the country in preparation for
flu season. These vaccines will protect
against at least 3 strains of flu: A/California/7/2009 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus,
A/Texas/50/2012 (H3N2)-like virus, and B/Massachusetts/2/2012-like virus. Some vaccines will also include protection
against the B/Brisbane/60/2008-like virus).
All vaccines are therefore either trivalent or quadrivalent, treating 3
or 4 strains of flu.
While
researchers have done their best to provide the best vaccine “match” to the
projected outbreak, there is no guarantee that these particular strains will be
the primary ones circulating around the world.
However, flu vaccines can still provide protection against the flu even
if they don’t target the particular strain of flu that one is infected
with.
--Andrew Duong
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