NATION IN BRIEF : NATIONWIDE : Winter Flu Season at Epidemic Stage
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
This winter’s flu season has reached the epidemic stage and flu deaths are at their highest in eight years, the Centers for Disease Control said in Atlanta. Most of the cases reported to the CDC this winter have been the A-H3N2 type. That was the predominant strain in the 1984-85 flu season, when an estimated 57,000 Americans died from flu--37,000 more than in a typical winter.
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