Over the winter, flu levels across the country are at their highest since the peak of the 2009 swine flu pandemic, according to figures issued Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Second wave of a virus.
Nearly 8% of respiratory illness visits to outpatient providers, including emergency care and doctor’s offices, reported to the CDC this week that people with flu were ill. This is record worst in the CDC’s flu surveillance network during the late 2009 pig flu pandemic.
Most flu seasons usually see infection revival after winter break, but this winter flu wave has reached an unusually high level compared to recent years.
It drives the overall level Respiratory diseases It will be at a “very high” level for the first time this season, but the waves of Covid-19 have been getting smaller in recent months.
Other flu metrics have far surpassed their recent peaks across the country. In the emergency room And then from the laboratory test. Data collected by the CDC from LABS found that 31.6% of tests last week were positive for the flu, nearly twice the peak of last season’s 18.2%.
The CDC says most states are at “high” or “very high” levels of flu activity, but some states may be at peaks now.
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Institutional disease predictors have predicted flu infections “are likely to grow” in 15 states, and are now beginning to flatten or decline in most other states.
Unlike the 2009 pandemic, lab tests across the country suggest that cases are still from the usual seasonal variants of the virus, not new strains spilled from the animals.
Farms are tackling a record surge in H5N1 bird flu With poultry Pushing up egg prices and potentially fatal tension With a dairy cowa US study has confirmed that human cases confirmed from avian flu to avian flu are associated with direct contact with diseased animals rather than human transmission.
