BEING HEALTHY AND CLEAN IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER NOW…
According to health officials, for the first time in 15 years, the flu season has started much earlier this year possibly due to an unexpected strain of the virus. So far Louisana has been hit the hardest, and en estimated 900 people have died and around 1.7 million people have become ill already and 16,000 hospitalizations nationally. The last time this happened was in 2003-2004 and this is expected to be a lot worse.
Scott Epperson, who tracks flu-like illnesses for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, ‘It really depends on what viruses are circulating. There´s not a predictable trend as far as if it´s early it´s going to be more severe, or later, less severe.’
There are various sorts of flu infections, and the one causing ailments in many pieces of the nation is a shock. It is an adaptation that usually doesn’t come until March or April.
That infection, by and large, isn’t as risky to more established individuals – uplifting news, since most influenza hospitalizations and passings each winter happen in the older. In any case, such infections can be hard for kids and individuals younger than 50.
Louisiana was the main state to truly get hit hard, with specialists there saying they started seeing huge quantities of influenza-like diseases in October.
According to Dr. Toni Gross, the hospital´s chief of emergency medicine, children’s Hospital New Orleans has already seen more flu cases this fall than it saw all of last winter and November was the busiest month ever in the emergency department. “It is definitely causing symptoms that will put you in bed for a week,’ including fever, vomiting and diarrhea. But the hospital has not had any deaths and is not seeing many serious complications,” she said.
The most intense patient traffic has been taking place across 6 states including Texas through Georgia, and has since risen to 12 states.
Here’s some simple tips to help prevent getting the flu this season.
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