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The last full week of the traditional flu season had five more deaths, including at least one in the Triad, to raise the statewide total to 96, the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services reported.
The flu season typically runs from Oct. 1 to March 31, although it can vary by weeks in either direction depending on how virulent the most common strain happens to be.
The previous high in recent years was 91 in 2009-10, which is the flu season where the H1N1 strain, or swine flu, was so prevalent. When counting H1N1 deaths that occurred in the summer before the 2009-10 flu season began, the death total from April 2009 to May 2010 was 107.
http://www.journalnow.com/news/stat...cle_c969d4e6-bc0b-11e3-b609-001a4bcf6878.html
The flu season typically runs from Oct. 1 to March 31, although it can vary by weeks in either direction depending on how virulent the most common strain happens to be.
The previous high in recent years was 91 in 2009-10, which is the flu season where the H1N1 strain, or swine flu, was so prevalent. When counting H1N1 deaths that occurred in the summer before the 2009-10 flu season began, the death total from April 2009 to May 2010 was 107.
http://www.journalnow.com/news/stat...cle_c969d4e6-bc0b-11e3-b609-001a4bcf6878.html