101.5 KNUE Country Radio » flu http://knue.com Thu, 23 May 2013 08:02:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Flu Outbreak: Tips to Staying Healthy + Where You Can Get the Flu Shot http://knue.com/flu-outbreak-tips-to-staying-healthy-where-you-can-get-the-flu-shot/ http://knue.com/flu-outbreak-tips-to-staying-healthy-where-you-can-get-the-flu-shot/#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:46:38 +0000 Leslie Reynolds http://knue.com/?p=169408 While it may be a brand new year and everyone is excited about a fresh start, there is something that comes along with this wintery weather that people don't like: The flu. Doctors have said this is the worst outbreak of the flu in more than a decade, especially for babies and older folks.

]]> http://knue.com/flu-outbreak-tips-to-staying-healthy-where-you-can-get-the-flu-shot/feed/ 0 matthewcoughliln, Flickr Starting the New Year With the Flu? You're Not Alone http://knue.com/starting-the-new-year-with-the-flu-youre-not-alone/ http://knue.com/starting-the-new-year-with-the-flu-youre-not-alone/#comments Tue, 01 Jan 2013 13:14:50 +0000 Jen Austin http://mix931fm.com/?p=162543 Maybe it's not just the effects of the New Year's Eve drinks that you're feeling today. Many people in East Texas are sick with something other than the "brown bottle flu" right now.

Flu cases are up in Texas. Emergency rooms from Dallas to Tyler to Houston are saying they're seeing more flu cases right now, with fevers of 102 to 103 and that yucky, awful, achey feeling. And of course the other pleasantries associated with the flu that we don't need to mention.

With flu cases on the rise, what can be done?

]]> http://knue.com/starting-the-new-year-with-the-flu-youre-not-alone/feed/ 0 Joe Raedle/Getty Images Americans Are Divided on Flu Shots — Survey of the Day http://knue.com/americans-divided-flu-shots-survey/ http://knue.com/americans-divided-flu-shots-survey/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:00:57 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://tsminteractive.com/?p=59983 With flu season upon us, 46 percent of Americans have received a flu shot, whereas 47 percent said they have not and will not.

]]> http://knue.com/americans-divided-flu-shots-survey/feed/ 0 Andreas Rentz, Getty Images FDA Says Flu Injector Devices Not Approved as Vaccines http://knue.com/fda-flu-injector-devices-vaccines/ http://knue.com/fda-flu-injector-devices-vaccines/#comments Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:00:07 +0000 Shauna Wright http://tsminteractive.com/?p=56095 Flu vaccines have always been dreaded by those who hate shots, but this year a company called PharmaJet introduced a device that uses “a high-pressure steam of liquid to pierce the skin and deliver the vaccine.” The needle-phobics rejoiced.

But now the FDA is saying, Not so fast.

]]> http://knue.com/fda-flu-injector-devices-vaccines/feed/ 0 Justin Sullivan, Getty Images Helpful Tips To Prevent The Flu http://knue.com/helpful-tips-to-prevent-the-flu/ http://knue.com/helpful-tips-to-prevent-the-flu/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:56:48 +0000 Leslie Reynolds http://knue.com/?p=36439 It's that time of year again- time to bust out the fall clothes, watch the leaves change, curl up on the couch with the family watching Sunday afternoon football, and break out the pumpkins and scarecrows. The

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