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  2. Why is this year’s flu season so bad? Doctors weigh in on ...

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    The surge of influenza A is causing swaths of people to seek care. During the week ending Feb. 1, nearly 8% of visits to health care providers were for influenza-like illness (a fever plus a cough ...

  3. CDC Highest Number of Flu Cases in 15 Years. Here’s ... - AOL

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    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that flu cases in the United States this season are at their highest levels since the 2009–2010 swine flu. For the first time, the death ...

  4. Influenza pandemic - Wikipedia

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    An influenza pandemic is an epidemic of an influenza virus that spreads across a large region (either multiple continents or worldwide) and infects a large proportion of the population. There have been five major influenza pandemics in the last 140 years, with the 1918 flu pandemic being the most severe; this is estimated to have been ...

  5. What’s the Difference Between Flu A and Flu B? - AOL

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    In general, flu B doesn’t create big epidemics, but flu A does, Dr. Schaffner says. “Flu B kind of smolders along and is usually more prominent at the end of the influenza season,” he says.

  6. Spanish flu - Wikipedia

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    The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus.

  7. Influenza - Wikipedia

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    Influenza A virus and influenza B virus circulate in humans and cause seasonal epidemics, and influenza C virus causes a mild infection, primarily in children. Influenza D virus can infect humans but is not known to cause illness. In humans, influenza viruses are primarily transmitted through respiratory droplets from coughing and sneezing.

  8. Have the flu or know someone with it? Flu cases surge to ...

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    New bird flu variant found in cattle: ... One of the states where flu levels are growing is Kentucky, where the probability of an influenza epidemic is growing by 92.45%, the CDC said. ...

  9. List of epidemics and pandemics - Wikipedia

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    1847 Southern United States yellow fever epidemic 1847 Southern United States (especially New Orleans) Yellow fever: 3,400 [146] 1847–1848 influenza epidemic 1847–1848 Worldwide Influenza: Unknown [147] 1848–1849 Hawaii epidemic of infections 1848–1849 Hawaiian Kingdom: Measles, whooping cough, dysentery and influenza: 10,000 [148]

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