NH+Flu+Summary

Most of the complications are due to secondary infections. They usually appear after you've gotten over the flu. You can get pneumonia because your lungs are weakened. Reye's syndrome strikes children. Symptoms of the flu include: body aches, chills, dry cough, fever, headache, sore throat, and a stuffy nose.
 * Complications**

The flu spreads person to person. It is usually spread from coughing, sneezing, or bodily contact. It can also spread via vectors. The virus can last 2-8 hours on an inanimate object. So, if someone touches say a doorknob and leave a flu virus behind, anyone touching it within a few hours will contract this virus.
 * Spread**

There are two types of vaccine, the injected which is a killed virus, and the nasal spray, which is an attenuated virus. The viruses for the vaccine are grown in hen eggs. The vaccine takes about 2 weeks to work. It is made up of a cocktail of strains of viruses that the scientists think will be the ones circulating. It is best to get the vaccine during the fall. Anyone that is immunocompromised, young people, and elderly people should get the vaccine.
 * Vaccine**