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Posted on February 28, 2012 by Ted Purlain

Influenza
U.S. hospitals marked a slight increase in influenza activity during the first week in February, marking the beginning of the flu season.

A report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that in the last 29 years, only one other flu season began so late, and that was 27 years ago, according to MSNBC.

“This pattern is unusual, but not unprecedented,” Dr. Joseph Bresee, the chief of the epidemiology and prevention branch at the CDC, said, MSNBC reports. “If you haven’t gotten you flu vaccine yet, get your vaccine now— it’s not too late.”

The CDC reports that the majority of the flu viruses in circulation now are similar to the one making up this year’s vaccine. Vaccinations are recommended for those six months and older in the United States.

Bresee said that the late start to the flu season may be attributable, at least in part, to rising flu vaccination rates. As of November 2011, more people were vaccinated than in November 2010.

“As vaccine coverage increases, we ought to see less disease in the United States,” Bresee said, according to MSNBC.

In addition, according to Bresee, the viruses circulating now are similar to the ones that were circulating last year, so there may be some immunity carried over from last season.

Researchers have yet to be able to predict the length of flu season, or when it will peak.

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~ very interesting issapharma. (but I'm not buying their sugar-coated explanation.) Something's up this year. I've seen dozens of kids with flu (who test negative). And one kid who tested positive for influenza B. So what wierd flu-like virus is putting all of these susceptable kids into the hospital with viral pneumonia, and putting the younger ones even on ventilators? It looks like flu, it acts like flu, it smells like flu, but it doesn't test positive for flu.

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Hi Littlebird, i think that the test is not adapted has this new flu.

Look here: Algeria, Spread of influenza in Tissemsilt

Pandemic measure the extent of the spread of a virus, not its severity, but as the flu virus is constantly changing, this flu could mutate into a form more dangerous and this is unfortunately what has happened in the province of Tissemsilt.


While the number of cases appears to have peaked in all regions of the wilaya especially in children and especially with the last cold snap, sick with fever over 38.5 ° C for 72 h, pain, fatigue and weakness, runny nose quite heavily, shortness of breath at rest, and chest pain are the symptoms of the flu that has had its effect and the most "miserable". The treatments given by doctors no longer seem to have any effect and the recovery time of each person spreads unusually days to even weeks. The contagion of this flu has affected everyone, big and small each has had its share of this flu in the opinion of several people contacted is nothing usual and normal, it is stronger than seasonal flu people and cases transferred to hospital emergency Tissemsilt and elsewhere in the health centers and polyclinics are many, some went to say it's a flu that came to us from North America and they have him even given the name of Canadian flu and to know the opinion of specialists, we approached a town doctor who also said he received in his office the largest number of patients affected by flu "has long felt that the practice of "catch cold" reduces the body's resistance to colds and flu. However, nothing indicates that the cold weakens the immune system and facilitates the entry of the virus in the respiratory tract. If the flu is most common in winter, it seems more likely that this is due to confinement inside homes, which promotes the infection again, the fact that the air is drier in winter also facilitates contagion, because the lining of the nose from drying out. Indeed, the mucous membranes prevent entry of microbes more efficiently when wet. In addition, dry air of winter would facilitate the survival of the virus outside the body and this is why the first solution is prevention and in case one is struck by the flu, it is necessary to see the doctor and avoid contamination of those around. "In sum, during the flu season, almost everyone is exposed to the virus, but only some get the flu, it depends on the immune response of each.

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