Every year, public health departments and health agencies engage in the grueling process of convincing people to get a flu shot. Every year people refuse:
Author: Lauren Edmundson
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The U.S. government received its first shipment of an order of 2 million doses of smallpox medication last week. The government is stockpiling the drug
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