Winter brings health challenges with it for everyone. But it can be especially difficult for mesothelioma patients and others who are coping with a compromised immune system due to illness. It doesn’t seem to matter whether it is actually freezing cold and wet outside. Here in California we are having one of the warmest driest winters in our history and yet our state is still being hit hard by the flu. In just the San Francisco Bay Area counties, 18 flu-related deaths have been reported. All fatalities involved the influenza A strain H1N1, which the federal Centers for Disease Control and … [Read more...]