Guard Against Flu Complications
From the Consumer Reports website
The body aches, cough, fever, chills, and sore throat that come with the flu are miserable enough.
But older adults are at a much greater risk of serious complications compared to young, healthy people because the immune system in general becomes weaker with age,” says William Schaffner, M.D., a professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tenn.
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