Flu Hits Hard In Arkansas
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
State health officials and medical
professionals are hoping people pay a little more attention to an
abnormally early and intense outbreak of the flu.
Three Arkansans have died from influenza complications and
Arkansas Children`s Hospital has counted 351 cases, more than 10
times the number it usually sees through the first week of
December. And three Arkansans have died of flu complications.
Doctor Robert Bradsher, an infectious disease specialist at the
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, says it`s never too
late to get a flu shot, even in the middle of an epidemic.
Even though the public health departments are running low on the
flu shot vaccine, Little Rock hospitals like Saint Vincent`s and
some primary care physicians say they have plenty of doses left at
15 dollars per shot.
Posted by Mike Hellgren
