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This Week in Well-Being: Flu Frenzy, Superstorm Sadness, Pessimistic Greeks
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This Week in Well-Being: Flu Frenzy, Superstorm Sadness, Pessimistic Greeks

Every week, Gallup.com publishes new well-being findings. Here is a roundup of this week's key insights:

  • : An average of 3.2% of Americans said they had the flu on any given day in December, more than said so in the same month in any previous December since ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½started tracking the flu daily in 2008.
  • : Residents in ZIP codes most affected by Sandy reported a 25% increase in depression post-storm.
  • Combating Greek pessimism: More than four in 10 Greeks in 2011 expected their lives to get worse -- the highest level of pessimism in any of the 148 countries ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½surveyed. But Greek leaders can turn things around, according to the ¿Û¿Û´«Ã½Business Journal, by addressing four basic needs.

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