Health and Fitness

How to Stop the Flu

Engineering-systems researchers identify proven strategies to prevent influenza from spreading through a household.

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)–December 7, 2011. Between 1918 and 1920, an influenza epidemic swept across the globe, infecting more than a quarter of the world’s population and killing 50 to 100 million people.

If a similar outbreak occurred today, vaccines might help, but it’s possible that vaccine production would not be ramped up in time to have a significant effect. Furthermore, hospitals would likely…

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