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If you haven't picked it up yet, there are still things you can do to avoid getting flu. And to aid you in that quest, you can consult the Germ Tracker app.

Just in case you haven't already entrenched yourself inside your panic room over this flu epidemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a Public Health Emergency today for all of NY State in response to the increasingly severe flu season.

Last week 7.3 percent of the deaths reported were caused by pneumonia and the flu, which is above the CDC's epidemic threshold of 7.2 percent.

Brominated Vegetable Oil, a substance found in Gatorade, Fresca and other beverages, can cause serious health problems when ingested.

To find out more about today's earthquake, we got on the phone with Larry Brown, a Cornell University professor of geology and the director of the Institute for the Study of the Continents.