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Cold and flu season: Tips to avoid the flu

Jewels Cydrus, Reporter • March 7, 2025

Flu cases on campus have increased from three in December to more than 100 in February, according to Deweese Health Center records. It’s cold and flu season on a college campus, so an increase in...

DeWeese Health Center hosts flu clinic for Kent State employees

Nikki Gasiewski, KSTV Reporter • October 17, 2024

With flu season officially underway, the DeWeese Health Center wants to help Kent State employees with immunization efforts through a pop-up flu clinic and wellness fair. Health Promotion and Assessment...

What’s new with the Flu

Colleen Carroll Science reporter • October 15, 2019

Flu season is just beginning to rear its ugly head and clinics are arming themselves with arsenals of vaccines. Influenza’s annual assault falls in October and can last through early spring, and it’s...

H3N2 strain takes over flu season

Anu Sharma • February 1, 2018

This year’s flu season may be bad, but it’s not the worst season according to Dr. Neha Vyas from the Cleveland Clinic. The dominant strain, H3N2, has made this year's flu season miserable.The flu should...

Opinion: The flu survival guide

Mica Pflug • September 24, 2017

Ladies and gentlemen, cold and flu season is upon us.A few weeks of looming threats will emerge in the form of sniffles in class or waking up one night to your roommate coughing up a lung.Then ensues a...

Flu season upon us

Ashley Perry • January 24, 2016

Spring semester commonly means two things in Ohio: bad weather and getting sick in some way or other.Influenza, more commonly known as the flu, occurs frequently during the winter months. Flu season typically...

Give flu season the cold shoulder

Hannah Reed • January 21, 2014

Flu season is here, but it’s not hard to stay protected.Dr. Angela DeJulius, the Chief University Physician at University Health Services, said it is very common for students to be sick when they return...