A Particularly Nasty Flu Season.
The United States is in the bag of a very nasty flu season, federal health officials said Friday, due - in hefty part - to a strain of the virus that's hitting the elderly and children markedly hard. That strain is called H3N2 flu, and it's not a good match to the strains in this year's flu vaccine. As a result, thousands of males and females are being hospitalized and 26 children have died from flu so far, Dr Tom Frieden, conductor of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during a noontime press briefing fav-store. "Years that have H3N2 predominance nurse to have more hospitalizations and more deaths.
Frieden said hospitalization rates for flu have risen to 92 per 100000 colonize this season, primarily due to the H3N2 strain. This compares to a typical year of 52 hospitalizations per 100000 people. In an common year, more than 200000 people are hospitalized for flu and the million of children's deaths varies from as few as 30 to as many as 170 or more, CDC officials said regrowitfast com. Although it's the centre of the flu season, the CDC continues to recommend that each and every one 6 months and older get a flu shot.
