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How vaccination is helping to prevent another flu pandemic

  • Written by Nicole Iovine, Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases, University of Florida
An injectable flu vaccination. Flu vaccines lessen the likelihood of getting the flu and its severity. Flickr/, CC BY-SA

Researchers believe that over 50 million people worldwide died in the 1918 flu pandemic, making it possibly worse than even the Black Death that began in the 14th century.

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