Flu Widespread, Leading a Range of Winter’s Ills
Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 7:56AM The New York Times
It is not your imagination — more people you know are sick this winter, even people who have had flu shots.
Google Flu Trends U.S. map, January 10, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. EST--red indicates intense flu activity across the nation!
The country is in the grip of three emerging flu or flulike epidemics: an early start to the annual flu season with an unusually aggressive virus, a surge in a new type of norovirus, and the worst whooping cough outbreak in 60 years. And these are all developing amid the normal winter highs for the many viruses that cause symptoms on the “colds and flu” spectrum.
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See Google Flu Trends, registering "intense" flu activity in most of the U.S.
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