Flu Shots Important for College Age Kids - KCBD NewsChannel 11 Lubbock

12/8/08

Flu Shots Important for College Age Kids

Your college student may be preoccupied with finals right now, but tell him or her that one assignment they should not miss is getting a flu shot.  

Researchers from the University of Minnesota studied about 13,000 students from different campuses and  found that those who got the flu shot were less likely to get sick in general and missed fewer classes overall.

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