Flu Shot Season: Ebola Is Scary, But There Is Another Deadly Virus In The US To Worry About

Stop worrying about Ebola and get a flu shot instead. It is far more deadly in the U.S. compared with Ebola and is responsible for some of the worst disease outbreaks in the country's history. In the past year, there have been 9,632 hospitalizations related to influenza, according to the CDC. That's about 36 hospitalizations per 100,000 people in the U.S. Sixty percent of those cases were in people between the ages of 18 and 64.