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12-31-2010, 12:46 AM
CDC: Flu Season Picks Up, Widespread in 5 States (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/12/30/cdc-flu-season-picks-widespread-states/?test=latestnews)
Published December 30, 2010
| Associated Press
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A worker at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention sits at a station
in the emergency operations center as the CDC
ATLANTA – Flu season appears to be picking up.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says five states had widespread reports of flu last week, up from zero two weeks earlier.
A CDC report released Thursday says four of the states were in the South -- Alabama (http://www.foxnews.com/topics/entertainment/music/country/alabama.htm#r_src=ramp), Mississippi, Georgia and Virginia. The other was New York.
The report also says that tests of about 120 virus samples show the circulating flu strains seem to be well-matched to this season's flu vaccine.
Health officials say an estimated 23,600 flu-related deaths occur each year.
Published December 30, 2010
| Associated Press
http://a57.foxnews.com/static/managed/img/World/397/224/CDC.jpg
AP
A worker at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention sits at a station
in the emergency operations center as the CDC
ATLANTA – Flu season appears to be picking up.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says five states had widespread reports of flu last week, up from zero two weeks earlier.
A CDC report released Thursday says four of the states were in the South -- Alabama (http://www.foxnews.com/topics/entertainment/music/country/alabama.htm#r_src=ramp), Mississippi, Georgia and Virginia. The other was New York.
The report also says that tests of about 120 virus samples show the circulating flu strains seem to be well-matched to this season's flu vaccine.
Health officials say an estimated 23,600 flu-related deaths occur each year.