The Next Disaster: Flu

When you think disaster… You may think of big things, like earthquakes and tidal waves. But one potential disaster may come in the form of a little bug.

FOX News Radio’s Jill Nado reports:

How well can scientists really predict…

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…The flu? There’s swine flu, there’s bird flu…

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There’s H1N1, there’s H3N2….

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And researchers are working to figure out which one is coming at you.

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(Music) “Tissue over here, tissue tissue over there, tissues hanging out my nose and I don’t even care.”

Every year, the U.S. gets hit hard by one kind of flu or another. So researchers have to figure out in advance which one so the right vaccine can be made. Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health says a global network is mapping who’s getting hit by what strain of flu.

(Dr. Fauci) “It is a reasonable assumption that if people in the southern hemisphere who have their winter during our summer are experiencing a strain of influenza that we did not see during in our winter season.”

Then it’s up to the NIH to determine if the right vaccine is being dosed out properly.

In Washington, Jill Nado, FOX News Radio.

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