Posted on 12/30/2014 8:19:19 AM PST by Aquamarine
The CDC has today declared a national flu epidemic as virulent mutated versions of this years H3N2 virus sweep the country.
Twenty-two states have reported a high number of flu cases, centered mainly around the Midwest and southeast of the country.
Since the start of the flu season on October 1 and December 20, CDC figures show that 15 children have died from the virus and four in the week before Christmas.
Six children in Tennessee have died this year from the flu according to the state's Department of Health and so far East Tennessee Children's hospital has seen 442 children with flu this month.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
My wife’s step-father died last week in Illinois after being weakened by the flu, he was 90.
It’s gripped by the grippe?..................
I get mine every year. At my age a bout of Flu might cost conservatives a vote.
Don’t know which strain I had this past February, but it really sucked. Beat me up for 10 days and took about 1 month before I felt 100%.
Don’t know which strain I had this past February, but it really sucked. Beat me up for 10 days and took about 1 month before I felt 100%.
Looked for the story in our national news but found it in the UK. Think the real story is even worse than this report.
Looked for the story in our national news but found it in the UK. Think the real story is even worse than this report.
Way to go!
Gee, I wonder why the strains are mutating so? Duh!
It’s good to have a nebulizer around to keep it out of the lungs. Am using mine every day.
Sorry to hear that. May God bless his soul.
Hope you’ll go anyway.
IMHO...The object of pharmaceutical companies is to make everyone in the universe dependent on drugs to survive.
I remember one study in particular.....If I went on hormone therapy for 20 years, I would live longer.....8 days longer.
Not only that, but you can never really tell when you might be using it. If you're fighting off a grizzly, you don't want a pit bull latching on to your butt.
got it about 12/23 - spent Christmas in bed - just feeling slightly better today, excepting my full chest and asthma
Every year I can remember.
Like Jingle Bells and It’s a Wonderful Life and Frosty and.....
you are blessed to have avoided it
I take a multivitamin too. Powerful stuff.
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