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Respond privately. >> okay. >> if they don't put their name and most of them are anonymous and you say, you know what? i'm so sorry you had a bad experience. we have that flu bug. we had three of our staff was off that day. could you guys come in and let us treat you to a meal, and make this right. what you want to do is not go public with it, and really just by responding to them so many people are so excited. well, somebody's listening to me. >> that's what i found. people just want to be heard. >> and a lot of times they'll come in and they'll go, you know, i had a really good meal. they ha...

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>> unfortunately, it's still almost a 12-18 hour turn around. my colleagues at duke university developed this protocol, and, you know, the hope is that we make a rapid office screening test that you can, you know, do like a quick strep test that we do now in doctors' offices. and if that happens, then we can really make a huge difference in screening large populations and in making sure we treat the right patients with antibiotics. jenna: how about a little news we can use, doc, on that? when we start waking up in the morning with a little scratch in our throat, is there any tell-taling signs ...

When you're around the stuff all the time. it would make sense, essentially you wind up not being affected by it it if you're lucky. >> right. and there's tons of good bacteria and bad bacteria. and being on the farm, you know, we're around a lot of different things that people in the normal society don't get to be around. so, and also, i show cattle so i get to go around the country and be with different people from all over the united states, so i'm getting introduced to a lot of the other outside factors that my school friends didn't get exposed to. >> brian: and when you have purell and us...

Remember, the flu bug is widespread across more than 40 states. everything in red here, according to the centers for disease control and prevention in atlanta. and it's already killed, authorities tell us, more than as to children. we expect to get a better picture of the flu season tomorrow when the centers for disease control issues it's updated report. emergency rooms are getting three times the amount of patients. a bigger concern in massachusetts, outside boston, the mayor announced state-run flu clinics have run out of the vaccine. but he says the locals still have plenty of options. >> ...