"Most of the United States is reporting widespread flu activity according to CDC. Flu activity is expected to continue nationally for a number of weeks.
What can you do to protect yourself and your loved ones? If you have not received a flu vaccine, it is not too late! Flu vaccines reduce the risk of flu illness and potentially serious flu complications that can result in hospitalization and death. Flu activity usually peaks between December and February, although activity can last as late as May.
If you get sick with flu, antiviral drugs can be used to treat your illness.
Antiviral drugs are prescription medicines that fight against flu viruses in your body. They are different from antibiotics, which fight against bacterial infections. Antiviral drugs can lessen fever and flu symptoms, and shorten the time you are sick by about one day. They also may reduce the risk of complications such as ear infections in children, respiratory complications requiring antibiotics in adults, and hospitalization.
For people at high risk of serious flu complications, early treatment with an antiviral drug can mean having milder illness instead of more severe illness that might require a hospital stay. For adults hospitalized with flu illness, some studies have reported that early antiviral treatment can reduce their risk of death.."Antiviral drugs
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