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Here is no such thing as a ‘flu season’. We have just ‘accepted’ the programming to think of it as the months of November through March, covering late fall and winter, but there is really no such thing. On average, thousands end up in the hospital with the flu every year with the young and elderly being most vulnerable. Death from the flu occurs mostly among those people already having compromised immune systems. The flu, also known as influenza, is a highly contagious upper respiratory infection (URI) that is caused by a number of viruses. To date, there are approximately 26 to 30 different known strains of the flu virus. This is one of the reasons the flu vaccine has only mild to rare efficacy. The flu vaccine itself, typically only covers five to seven strains of the flu.  Symptoms of the flu include fever, coughing, a sore throat, fatigue, muscle aches, pains, runny nose and watery eyes.  What’s in your Flu Treatment Toolbox? The good news is we can avoid the flu by imple