Influenza Vaccination Reduces Cardiovascular Risk Following Infection (opens in new tab)

In the US alone, new strains of influenza reliably emerge to kill tens of thousands of older people every year, hundreds of thousands in a bad year. The research and development community has yet to fully develop and deploy any of the possible approaches that might effectively shut down viral infections, such as descendants of the DRACO technology, and the aged immune system becomes ever less able to resist and control infections of all sorts. In later life, the immune system also becomes mor...