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  1. 01-19-2018, 12:37 PM #1
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    Severe flu season slams 49 states

    (HealthDay)— The worst flu season in years is only getting worse, with 49 states now seeing widespread misery, U.S. health officials report.

    "Flu is everywhere in the U.S. right now," Dr. Daniel Jernigan, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's influenza division, said during a media briefing Friday. On a map of the United States tracking flu activity, "this is the first year that we have had the entire continental U.S. be the same color," he noted.

    Only Hawaii and the District of Columbia have been spared widespread flu infection so far, according to the CDC.

    "There has been a very rapid increase in the numbers of people coming in to see their doctors. The season has started early, and it is probably peaking right about now," Jernigan added.

    Not only that, but "there is also a rapid rise in the number of people being hospitalized for laboratory-confirmed flu," Jernigan said. In just the past week, hospitalizations have almost doubled, going from 13.7 per 100,000 to 22.7 per 100,000.

    The highest rates of hospitalizations are among those over the age of 65, but hospitalizations for those 50 to 64 is also high and increasing, Jernigan noted. And 20 children have died from the flu so far this season.

    An imperfect vaccine and a long bout of cold, wintry weather have conspired to turn this flu season into a very severe one...

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  2. 01-19-2018, 07:07 PM #2
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    It’s really bad up here, too. Rog and I are just getting over it. It’s abso brutal. ...the upper respiratory one.
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    My wife got the California flu on the third day we were in Palm Springs. At least that's what the clinic I took her to tonight called it after we arrived back here in Washington around 5pm. The Doctor told her they have seen quite a few people who have come from California with a nasty case of the flu. I'm ok, but she is layed out in bed tonight with a script of cough medication and two bottles of pills. I might add, I gave her a dose of prayer also.
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