Flu can be serious, and it kills tens of thousands of Americans each year. Vaccination is easier and more convenient than ever, so get yourself and your family protected.

More than 50 million people around the world died during the 1918-1919 flu pandemic. That's why we have epidemiologists all over the world tracking whether new strains of flu emerge.

Vaccination is the single most important step people can take to protect themselves from influenza.

If we vaccinate well, if we increase those vaccination rates, we can stop measles just as we stopped it before.

We continue to recommend flu vaccine as the single best way to protect yourself against the flu. The vaccine will protect against strains covered in the vaccine, and it may have some effectiveness in the drifted strains.

I loved clinical practice, but in public health, you can impact more than one person at a time. The whole society is your patient.