A Particularly Nasty Flu Season

A Particularly Nasty Flu Season.
The United States is in the case of a extraordinarily nasty flu season, federal health officials said Friday, due - in obese part - to a strain of the virus that's hitting the elderly and children only hard. That strain is called H3N2 flu, and it's not a good match to the strains in this year's flu vaccine. As a result, thousands of bourgeoisie are being hospitalized and 26 children have died from flu so far, Dr Tom Frieden, gaffer of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during a high noon press briefing. "Years that have H3N2 predominance minister to to have more hospitalizations and more deaths.

Frieden said hospitalization rates for flu have risen to 92 per 100000 kinsmen this season, primarily due to the H3N2 strain. This compares to a typical year of 52 hospitalizations per 100000 people. In an regular year, more than 200000 people are hospitalized for flu and the mob of children's deaths varies from as few as 30 to as many as 170 or more, CDC officials said. Although it's the medial of the flu season, the CDC continues to recommend that and Harry 6 months and older get a flu shot.

The reason: there's more than one type of flu ancestry circulating, and the vaccine protects against at least three strains of circulating virus. Frieden also stressed the service of antiviral drugs such as Tamiflu (oseltamivir) and Relenza (inhaled zanamivir), especially this year. "Treatment with antiviral flu drugs is even more leading this year. These drug work, but they aren't being second-hand nearly enough. They can reduce symptoms, shorten the duration of illness and prevent serious complications.

They could even liberate your life". To be most effective these drugs need to be given early, at the sign of first symptoms. Common flu symptoms can count fever, chills, cough, sore throat, muscle aches and fatigue. Vomiting and diarrhea are seen more often in children with flu than adults. People at jeopardize of flu-related complications cover young children, especially those younger than 2 years; people over 65; up the spout women; and people with chronic health problems, such as asthma, heart disease and weakened unaffected systems, according to the CDC.

Most people recover from the flu anywhere from a few days to a bit less than two weeks. But others fall off life-threatening complications, such as pneumonia, according to the CDC. Warning signs of plausible complications include a cough that disrupts sleep, a fever that doesn't come down with treatment, or increased shortness of breath, according to the US Food and Drug Administration. Flu seasons are unpredictable, according to the CDC. Each year, on average, 5 percent to 20 percent of the US inhabitants gets the flu disease. During a 30-year period, from 1976 to 2006, estimates of flu-related deaths in the United States ranged from a ineffective of about 3000 to a spaced out of about 49000 people, the instrumentality said.