Treating influenza (flu)

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (U.S.)
• Description:
  Do you have asthma, diabetes or chronic heart disease? If so, you are at high risk of serious illness if you get the flu. In past flu seasons, as many as 80 percent of adults hospitalized from flu complications had a long-term health condition, as did about 50 percent of hospitalized children. Asthma, diabetes and chronic heart disease were among the most common of these. Treatment with an influenza antiviral drug can mean the difference between having milder illness instead of very serious illness that could result in a hospital stay. This fact sheet provides information about using prescription antiviral drugs to treat influenza in people at high risk for flu complications.
  
  CS250831A
  
  
• Subjects:
  Influenza, Human/complications Influenza, Human/prevention & Control Influenza Vaccines
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Genre:
  Patient Education Handout
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:30fc016a8fd6b0c9e70cb4dad3966b0481301ad1afb00bd8e368c61ef0cdd6ec
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/27290/cdc_27290_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 906.15 KB ]