A Particularly Nasty Flu Season.
The United States is in the mastery of a principally sickening flu season, federal vigorousness officials said Friday, due - in big part - to a strain of the virus that's hitting the advanced in years and children markedly hard. That strain is called H3N2 flu, and it's not a amazing match to the strains in this year's flu vaccine. As a result, thousands of common people are being hospitalized and 26 children have died from flu so far, Dr Tom Frieden, superintendent of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during a noon c clip briefing delivery. "Years that have H3N2 hegemony exhibit to have more hospitalizations and more deaths.
Frieden said hospitalization rates for flu have risen to 92 per 100000 kinsfolk this season, first of all due to the H3N2 strain. This compares to a standard year of 52 hospitalizations per 100000 people. In an mediocre year, more than 200000 settle are hospitalized for flu and the crowd of children's deaths varies from as few as 30 to as many as 170 or more, CDC officials said hgher. Although it's the centre of the flu season, the CDC continues to back that everybody under the sun 6 months and older get a flu shot.
