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Flu season is heating up
The number of cases is rising quickly, and several strains are circulating
Jan 21, 2011
Written by
Shari Rudavsky
This year's flu season is mild compared with last year's H1N1 pandemic, but the number of people stricken is rising fast.
Until the past week or so, flu activity was about average for this time of year, state health officials said. But now, in the third week of flu season, cases are as numerous as they normally would be in the fifth week.
"That's telling me we have kind of a jump-start on the flu season, and it happened relatively fast," said Shawn Richards, a respiratory epidemiologist with the Indiana State Department of Health.
Read more:
http://www.indystar.com/article/201...ckly?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|IndyStar.com|s
The number of cases is rising quickly, and several strains are circulating
Jan 21, 2011
Written by
Shari Rudavsky
This year's flu season is mild compared with last year's H1N1 pandemic, but the number of people stricken is rising fast.
Until the past week or so, flu activity was about average for this time of year, state health officials said. But now, in the third week of flu season, cases are as numerous as they normally would be in the fifth week.
"That's telling me we have kind of a jump-start on the flu season, and it happened relatively fast," said Shawn Richards, a respiratory epidemiologist with the Indiana State Department of Health.
Read more:
http://www.indystar.com/article/201...ckly?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|IndyStar.com|s