Getting shot

Last autumn and winter were somewhat unnerving on the health front because of the severe shortage of flu shots that occurred at that time. Due to the shortage I skipped getting one of the shots at that time; I had been getting them for several consecutive years prior to that.

But for the currently approaching flu season, I have not seen or heard anything about such a shortage occurring again. So, today I looked up local places offering the shots, found one occuring today, and got it done.

Of course this vaccinates only for human varieties of influenza. The potential for a pandemic from the avian influenza problem that is currently mostly in Asia is still present; read up about that from the National Geographic article I just linked to.

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