Influenza

One Wednesday: Sept. 17, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Online via Zoom
There is no charge for this Zoom presentation: Simply notify our business manager that you’d like to attend and she will email you a link ahead of the presentation.

Presented by: Bruce Phillips
In this ~1 hour presentation, we will discuss briefly the history of influenza disease, including the great epidemic of 1918–1919. Later in the talk we’ll learn how that epidemic unfolded. Dr. Phillips will also analyze (i) the nature of influenza disease and the challenges of dealing with it; (ii) how the influenza virus grows inside certain cells; (iii) its nasty propensity to constantly mutate; (iv) the nature and limitations of influenza vaccines, which often require reformulation year to year; (v) medical treatments for flu; and (vi) practical behaviors to reduce the risk of infection—as well as medical myths you may have heard.