1.   Getting a flu vaccine can often prevent the flu.

2.   Nor has the drug been proven effective for preventing the flu.

3.   While the vaccine can prevent the flu, the prescription drugs are intended to ease symptoms after its onset.

4.   While antiviral drugs help ease symptoms, the sure way to prevent the flu is through a flu vaccine.

5.   Another problem is that isolating the sick athletes usually comes too late to prevent the flu from spreading.

6.   Getting an annual influenza shot may do more than represent a shot in the arm to preventing the flu.

7.   The FDA said Tamiflu has not yet been proved to prevent flu.