Early Flu Season Hits Hard

The flu is back and with a vengeance.
Hitting the U.S. unusually early and hard this year, the flu season has officially arrived and it won't be departing any time soon. If you're at all like me, you have a healthy appreciation for the often underestimated and crippling powers of the flu and you take every precaution to avoid it. If not, it's never too soon to get prepared and not too late to get vaccinated against one of the most notorious and common winter maladies.
If you're young and healthy, the flu may just make you feel lousy for a week or two, miss some work, and spread the infection to some of your favorite people. If you're elderly, have medical problems, are pregnant, or are a young child, you may not be so lucky. More than 200,000 people are hospitalized due to influenza each year, according to the the U.S. Centers for Disease Control And depending on the year, between 3,000 and 49,000 people die.
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