Full Coverage: Influenza

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  • Centers for Disease Control: Influenza - Includes updates on the October to May flu season in the U.S. Also has primer on the illness and types of flu viruses, and information on flu shots.
  • American Experience: Influenza, 1918 - Examines the worst epidemic the U.S. has ever known, which killed more Americans than all the combat deaths of the 20th Century combined.
  • Flu Shot Locator - enter a zip code to find out where and when flu shots are dispensed. From the American Lung Association.
  • FluWatch - tool that enables physicians and consumers to track the spread of Influenza using surveillance maps. From the National Flu Surveillance Network.
  • Influenza's Reach Over Time - timeline that tracks the flu from 400 B.C. to the present. From MSNBC.
  • Secrets of the Dead: Killer Flu - background, clues, and evidence behind the 1918 influenza pandemic; from PBS.