disease

Each year, as flu season approaches, many of us offer up our arms for a quick pinch, hoping to stay healthy during the winter ahead. The annual influenza vaccine protects against a few strains of the disease that experts at the World Health Organization (WHO) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) predict will be most common that season.

A requirement that middle schoolers be vaccinated against pertussis seems to protect the wider community and encourage preteens to receive other types of inoculations.