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Jan. 18, 2013
How Do You Fend Off the Flu?
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Aside from getting the flu shot, how do you outsmart the wily virus? Hoard hand sanitizer? Dodge door knobs? Or quietly slink away from coughing commuters? Dr. Nicole Bouvier, a flu researcher at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, talks about what works -- and what doesn't -- in avoiding influenza.
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Produced by Christopher Intagliata, Associate Senior Producer
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Nicole Bouvier
Assistant Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, New York
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