Have you gotten your flu vaccine yet?  No one ever “plans” to get sick, but every year, more than 200,000 Americans are hospitalized because of flu or its complications. The best way to prevent influenza is to get a seasonal flu vaccine. The Sacramento County Immunization Assistance Program is sponsoring two low-cost community flu clinics to help you stay healthy. The clinics will take place from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 18 at the Pannell Community Center, 2450 Meadowview Road, and 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 19 at the Robertson Community Center, 3525 Norwood Avenue. Injectable and intranasal flu vaccines will be available. A $10 donation is requested. The new vaccine is a com

Sacramento may not be New York or Mexico city, but it can get crowded and the flu can spread quickly. As summer nears, H1N1, also known as swine flu or Mexican flu, is expected to die down before returning in the fall--possibly stronger than it is now. Health officials are eyeing similarities between the 1918 Spanish Flu, which killed between 20 and 100 million people, and H1N1 in order to learn more about the path H1N1 might take. Like H1N1, the Spanish flu began in the spring as a new and relatively mild flu but died out as summer arrived. When fall and flu season returned, it turned deadlier. Like H1N1, it's descendant, young adults were targeted by the disease thanks to their healthy