Posted on 01/16/2018 8:03:46 PM PST by blam
“This is the first year we have had the entire continental U.S. be the same color on the graph.” Now new strains may be coming.
The influenza virus that’s sickened millions of Americans is already the most widespread outbreak since public health authorities began keeping track more than a dozen years ago. Now, with the threat of more strains emerging, it might get even worse.
“Flu is everywhere in the U.S. right now,” said Dan Jernigan, director of the influenza division at the national Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. “This is the first year we have had the entire continental U.S. be the same color on the graph, meaning there is widespread activity in all of the continental U.S. at this point.”
The most optimistic assumption among government experts is that the season peaked a few weeks ago, marking the apex of what was already an early and severe outbreak. However, such an outlook requires observers to ignore that outpatient doctor visits have continued to climb (albeit more slowly) in the first week of 2018, yielding the most flu cases ever for this time of the year.
Even if the hopeful assessment by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention bears out, there will still be another 11 weeks to 13 weeks of flu circulating across the country. “In general, we see things peaking right about now, but that means there is still a whole lot more flu to go,” Jernigan said. “In addition, there are other strains of influenza still to show up that could be a major cause of disease.”
That may already be happening. The CDC is starting to see infections caused by the H1N1 strain of the virus in states grappling with high levels of the H3N2 strain, the predominant version this season.
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Only if she uses homemade brew made with salt water. Warm water process will not turn us into bluets.
Yes, being that I live way too far North to get any meaningful vitamin D between the months of November-March, I supplement daily.
Elderberry. Great for minimizing the flu, and preventing the flu. Sambucus products. Easy to take.
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Ooops....Heinie is back.
You could get a virus from your computer.
The millions of flu victims are incubators for future mutant strains.
I’m hoping the flu I had last year will protect against this year’s versions. I’m mainlining Vitamin D as well.
I haven’t gone the face mask route but since I’ve been sick off and on almost all winter I’ve taken to wearing latex gloves when I go to the grocery store, etc. I don’t touch any baskets anywhere anymore. I strip them off when I get in the car and as soon as I get in the house wash my hands. I’m sick of being sick!
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Me either, I haven’t even had a cold in five years. My wife is a nurse, and she will tell you up front that the flu shot won’t work on about 80% of the strains, they never know which strain will show up.
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