Focus on the flu, get your vaccination

Flu season has begun, yet there hasn’t been the normal concern for the virus that there usually is at this time of the year. For several months, Americans have been concerned with the threat of the Ebola virus.

Since the media announced that two Americans contracted Ebola while helping patients in Monrovia, Liberia, people have been in a panic about the virus spreading throughout the country. Although Ebola is serious in the Southwestern region of Africa, the chances of a person contracting it in the United States is low unless they have had direct contact with a person who has it.

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