Viruses

Today I had to reassure a parent that her child was very unlikely to contract Ebola. The media has made everyone so crazy! Everyone is super concerned they are going to get ebola or enterovirus and it has made parents paranoid and terrified beyond belief. People are just going nuts. Luckily the big enterovirus outbreak is on the downswing in Michigan now, but the media has people really freaked out. And while everyone is freaking out about ebola people are still declining flu vaccines that can help prevent their kids from getting a virus that they are actually likely to come across. Such is the life of peds clinic in the fall.