...committee matches the formula adopted for next year by the World Health Organization. The vaccine includes two strains of A-type flu and one of B-type. Type A flu is generally the harshest. The vaccine for next flu season will change one of the...

...which will also contain a second A strain which was in this year's vaccine. The vaccine includes two strains of A-type flu and one of B-type. Tentatively the committee decided to keep the current B-Shanghai in the vaccine. That could...

...antibiotics. A pair of antiviral drugs, amantadine (Symmetrel) and rimantadine (Flumadine), can help ward off A-type flu or lessen its severity -- if they are given promptly, within the first day or two after symptoms appear. Who needs...