PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Sherif Beniameen Mossad
TI  - Influenza update 2018–2019: 100 years after the great pandemic
AID  - 10.3949/ccjm.85a.18095
DP  - 2018 Nov 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 861--869
VI  - 85
IP  - 11
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/85/11/861.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/85/11/861.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2018 Nov 01; 85
AB  - Four influenza pandemics, starting with the historic 1918 pandemic, have killed thousands of people around the world. Vaccination, still the most important means of pre-venting influenza, is currently recommended yearly for all people age 6 months and older, with a goal of vaccinating 80% of all Americans and 90% of at-risk populations. Neuraminidase inhibitors are underused, and a new drug with a different mechanism of action, baloxavir marboxil, is expected to be approved soon in the United States.