Traveling soon? Leave lots of time (Seattle Times)
Getting the Flu Vaccine If you get the flu vaccine, or shot, it will protect you from getting a bad case of the flu. You either won't get the flu at all or, if you do get it, you will have only mild symptoms and you should get better pretty quickly. Like other shots, a flu shot is given using a needle. There's also a nasal mist flu vaccine, which is a spray that's squirted up your nose.
Traveling soon? Leave lots of time (Seattle Times)
The airline industry is urging Thanksgiving travelers to get to the airport extra early this year, and to expect longer-than-usual lines...
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Flu-like illness ID'd, Hawaii cruise ship sails (BizJournals)
Passengers aboard the Pride of Hawaii cruise ship on its Nov. 5 interisland tour were stricken by the Norwalk virus, Hawaii health officials say.
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Health Officials Confirm Norwalk Virus On NCL Ship (KITV TheHawaiiChannel.com via Yahoo! News)
State Department of Health officials confirmed that tests showed the Norwalk virus was present on the Norwegian Cruise Line's Pride of Hawaii ship when more than 200 passengers got sick last week.
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Cruise ship passengers infected with Norwalk virus (KPUA Hilo)
HONOLULU (AP) _ State health officials say a highly contagious virus that causes stomach flu sickened about 220 passengers aboard a Norwegian Cruise Lines ship in Hawaii.
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Norwalk virus confirmed on Pride of Hawaii; 220 sick (Honolulu Advertiser)
HONOLULU — State health officials have identified the highly contagious Norwalk virus in an outbreak that affected about 220 passengers aboard the Norwegian Cruise Lines ship Pride of Hawaii.
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220 Hawaiian cruise passengers get flu (Detroit News)
HONOLULU -- A highly contagious virus that causes stomach flu sickened about 220 passengers aboard a Norwegian Cruise Lines ship that returned Monday to Honolulu after its weekly seven-day cruise around the islands, officials said.
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Over 220 Norwegian ship passengers go down with stomach flu (Pravda)
About 220 passengers of Norwegian Cruise Lines ship went down with highly contagious stomach flu . The ship returned to Honolulu after a week-long cruise.
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Cruise ship passengers infected with Norwalk virus (Seattle Times)
State health officials have identified the highly contagious Norwalk virus in an outbreak that affected about 220 passengers aboard the Norwegian Cruise...
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Norovirus suspected in Kasota outbreak (Mankato Free Press)
While lab results aren’t yet in, norovirus is suspected of sickening 17 residents of a Kasota apartment building last weekend, Minnesota Department of Health spokesman Doug Schultz said.
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Around the Region (Whittier Daily News)
WHITTIER - Two people were shot and wounded while sitting in front of an apartment complex Friday, officials said. The attack was reported just after 4 p.m. in the 7200 block of Whittier Avenue, said Whittier police Sgt. Dan Lowe.
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Traveling soon? Leave lots of time (Seattle Times)
Whichever one you get, you need to get a new vaccine every year. Why? Because the flu virus changes every year and the vaccine is specially created to fight the viruses that are going to be a problem that year.
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