When the flu leads to a heart attack


Visual inspection of a batch of quadrivalent flu vaccines at Sanofi Pasteur’s Val-de-Reuil flu vaccine manufacturing site in France.

Living here on the equator, we tend to ignore the annual arrival of the influenza season, which comes with winter in the temperate climates of the northern (December to February) and southern hemispheres (June to August).

Perhaps we think that our year-round sunny, warm weather protects us against contracting this highly contagious respiratory infection.

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