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Reports of flu skyrocket in Alaska in December
Posted: Thursday, December 26, 2013 12:15 am | Updated: 8:03 am, Thu Dec 26, 2013.
Weston Morrow
FAIRBANKS ? As doctors with the state Department of Epidemiology will tell anyone willing to listen, every flu season is different. Flu season struck Alaska this year just as people began gearing up for the holidays.
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From Dec. 1-21, the department received reports of 177 influenza infections in Alaska. The department had received only 65 total reported cases throughout the entire first few months of the flu season before that.
Flu outbreaks caused Alaska Airlines to cancel 24 of its flights around the Pacific Northwest Sunday and Monday, according to a report by the Associated Press. The airline canceled the flights because too many of its pilots and flight attendants had been hit with the flu.
Alaska Airlines spokesperson Bobbie Egan said the cancellations were because of a "very unusual" flu season affecting the airline's entire Pacific Northwest coverage area.
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Influenza A, specifically the H1N1 strain known as swine flu, has accounted for the "vast majority" of flu cases in Alaska so far in 2013, Fearey said. That trend aligns with a similarly high proportion of swine flu nationwide.
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Posted: Thursday, December 26, 2013 12:15 am | Updated: 8:03 am, Thu Dec 26, 2013.
Weston Morrow
FAIRBANKS ? As doctors with the state Department of Epidemiology will tell anyone willing to listen, every flu season is different. Flu season struck Alaska this year just as people began gearing up for the holidays.
...
From Dec. 1-21, the department received reports of 177 influenza infections in Alaska. The department had received only 65 total reported cases throughout the entire first few months of the flu season before that.
Flu outbreaks caused Alaska Airlines to cancel 24 of its flights around the Pacific Northwest Sunday and Monday, according to a report by the Associated Press. The airline canceled the flights because too many of its pilots and flight attendants had been hit with the flu.
Alaska Airlines spokesperson Bobbie Egan said the cancellations were because of a "very unusual" flu season affecting the airline's entire Pacific Northwest coverage area.
...
Influenza A, specifically the H1N1 strain known as swine flu, has accounted for the "vast majority" of flu cases in Alaska so far in 2013, Fearey said. That trend aligns with a similarly high proportion of swine flu nationwide.
...
Full text:
http://www.newsminer.com/news/local...cle_7c64640a-bd98-554b-a230-36266355113a.html