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Cold and Flu Season
If you live in any of these states; Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, New York and Virginia, you are seeing heighten cases of the flu. There are also 13 other states that are seeing widespread cases of the cold and flu! Check out this article to see if you live in one of the states affected, and read other statistics about this year’s cold/flu season.
Flu spreading fast, nearly all swine variety
Associated Press
updated 3:42 p.m. ET Sept. 11, 2009
msnbc.com
WASHINGTON - Influenza is circulating unusually early this year with cases in all 50 states — nearly all the swine flu variety, government health officials said Friday.
The highest concentration of flu cases is in the Southeast and a few other states, Dr. Anne Schuchat of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said at a briefing.
The good news is that testing of vaccines for swine flu show that they work with a single dose and take effect rapidly.