Flu hits over 2,200 students in E. China province

[Sally Furniss]

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Some 2,292 primary and middle school students in East China's Zhejiang Province were hit by flu in the first quarter of this year, local government sources said on Thursday.
The provincial health department has issued a warning against a possible flu outbreak, calling for local residents to keep alert.
According to statistics of the health department, the 2,292 flu cases were reported between January 1 and March 27, with a rate of 4.86 per 100,000 people, up 493.78 and 498.68 percent, respectively, over the same period of last year.
Of all the flu-hit patients, 98.43 percent are students, with half living in rural areas, local health care experts said.
Most of the cases are B-type flu, which spreads fast among people with low flu resistibility.


http://english.people.com.cn/200604/06/eng20060406_256493.html


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[gsgs]

Re: Flu hits over 2,200 students in E. China province

hmm, 493.78% ,
can we compare this with the flu in California this year ?

In Europe there was almost no flu this season.

Why doesn't normal flu go pandemic ? Is it just because of local
differences in the immun-system or seasonal dependence,
so it can't travel fast enough before the season is over ?

Flu hasn't yet learned to overcome the season-problem and it
doesn't seem that it will ever learn it, however much it mutates.

Panflu has no such problem with seasons, so what's the secret
in the genes that lets it remain active in summer ?