For years, the CDC has been promoting the notion that flu shots are between 70 and 90 percent effective in preventing influenza 16 and everybody needs to get vaccinated because type A and type B influenza causes more than 200,000 hospitalizations and 36,000 deaths in the U.S. every year.
Richard Parker boards the lifeboat and suddenly Pi realizes the danger in sharing a tiny space with a vicious animal. He throws himself into the roiling water. The narrative moves back a few moments to the point just before the sinking of the Tsimtsum. Pi is sleeping when a loud noise, perhaps an explosion, wakes him.
USS Indianapolis sinking, shark attacks recalled by survivor's brother. COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, MI -- Charles Smeltzer was an 18-year-old from Comstock in 1945 when he survived the worst U.S. Naval disaster and the worst shark attack in history. The horrifying series of events started 70 years ago today, July 30, 1945, when the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by the Japanese in the final days of World War II.