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Flout flu at your peril, warns new poll
By Tobi Cohen, Postmedia News November 30, 2010 4:57 PM
The flu is "nothing to sneeze at," warns the Ontario Lung Association after releasing results of a poll Tuesday that suggest an alarming number of at-risk Canadians take a potentially dangerous "laissez-faire" approach to the illness.
The survey found nearly two-thirds of Canadians considered "at-risk" ? because they are either over 65, are pregnant, are long-term smokers or have a chronic medical condition, such as asthma or heart disease ? don't realize seasonal influenza can cause severe and life-threatening complications which send 20,000 people to hospital every year and cause up to 8,000 deaths...
Flout flu at your peril, warns new poll
By Tobi Cohen, Postmedia News November 30, 2010 4:57 PM
The flu is "nothing to sneeze at," warns the Ontario Lung Association after releasing results of a poll Tuesday that suggest an alarming number of at-risk Canadians take a potentially dangerous "laissez-faire" approach to the illness.
The survey found nearly two-thirds of Canadians considered "at-risk" ? because they are either over 65, are pregnant, are long-term smokers or have a chronic medical condition, such as asthma or heart disease ? don't realize seasonal influenza can cause severe and life-threatening complications which send 20,000 people to hospital every year and cause up to 8,000 deaths...