This could be one of the worst flu seasons in history, experts say.
Experts are worried that because there has been such devastation early on, we are going to experience one of the worst flu seasons ever.“This season is off to an early start, earlier than any season this decade,” Dr. Bryan Lewis, professor at the University of Virginia, wrote in an email to. “You have to go back to 2003 before you have as much active transmission in early December as we have now.”
In the week ending December 7, the flu spread rampantly across 49 out of 50 states, with widespread flu activity in 23 states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Washington.
University of Virginia doctors have also noticed another interesting trend this flu season — the dominance of Influenza B . While Influenza B is less serious than A, with less hospitalizations and death, it still causes significant illness.
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