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NPR reports that the FDA is not including one of the strains of flu — B/Yamagata — in this year's recipe because covid prevention initiatives appear to have pushed it into oblivion. Meanwhile, whooping cough reaches its highest spread since 2014. Have you updated your Tdap shot? You need it every 10 years, the CDC says.